ITALY 1915-1919 OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR NEW & FREEPOST IN THE UK

ITALY 1915-1919. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR OTHER THEATRES:\nOfficial account of the Italian campaign from 1915, with special reference to Britain\u2019s support for her embattled Italian ally in the year between November 1917 and November 1918. Five British and four French divisions with supporting arms were engaged.\nAlthough the third member of the Central Powers triple alliance before the Great War, Italy wisely held aloof from the conflict which began in August 1914. But pressure from the western Allies \u2013 particularly France \u2013 caused her to abandon neutrality and join the war on the Allied side. This volume recounts what followed as it affected the British troops involved in supporting our tottering ally after the disastrous defeat at Caporetto in 1917. The preliminary chapters provide a sketch of the events that brought Italy into the war and the operations that took place before the arrival of the British divisions in November 1917. In all, five British and fo.