This is the story of the First World War in Italy, a war that gave birth to fascism. Mussolini fought in these trenches, as did most of his collaborators. But so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian and German - Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil.
Introduction: ‘Italians! Go back!’
Chapter 1: A Mania for Expansion
Chapter 4: Cadorna’s Clenched Fist
Chapter 5: The Solemn Hour Strikes
Chapter 7: Walls of Iron, Clouds of Fire
Chapter 8: Trento and Trieste!
Chapter 9: From Position to Attrition
Chapter 10: The Dreaming Barbarian
Chapter 11: Walking Shapes of Mud
Chapter 13: A Necessary Holocaust?
Chapter 16: Starlight from Violence
Chapter 19: Not Dying for the Fatherland
Chapter 20: The Gospel of Energy
Chapter 23: Another Second of Life
Chapter 24: The Traitor of Carzano
Chapter 25: Caporetto: The Flashing Sword of Vengeance
Chapter 27: From Victory to Disaster
Appendix: Free from the Alps to the Adriatic
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