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Index
Abel, Captain, 1
Abruzzi Brigade, 1
Acland, Major Arthur, 1
Adige, River: Austrian strategy, 1, 2;
border, 1;
Dolomites Road, 1;
Italian advance, 1, 2;
Italian strategy, 1, 2;
landscape, 1, 2
Albertazzi, Amleto, 1
Alberti, Mario, 1
Albertini, Luigi: Barzini’s work, 1, 2 ; career, 1;
D’Annunzio relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4;
influence, 1, 2;
patriotic mission, 1 ;
policy turnaround (1919), 1 ;
pro-Yugoslav stance, 1
Albrecht, Field Marshal, 1, 2, 3, 4
Alessi, Rino, 1n, 2
Alto Adige: Austrian offer, 1; cost to Italy, 1;
Italian claim, 1, 2;
Italian position, 1, 2;
population, 1, 2, 3;
territory, 1n
Aosta, Duke of: appearance and character, 1; command, 1, 2, 3;
D’Annunzio relationship, 1, 2;
forces, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Gorizia role, 1;
Isonzo strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
relationship with King, 1;
reputation, 1, 2;
retreat, 1;
San Michele assaults, 1, 2;
treatment of mutineers, 1;
on war, 1, 2
Arz von Straussenberg, General Artur, 1, 2, 3, 4
Asiago plateau: Austrian forces, 1 Austrian offensives, 1, 2;
Austrian positions, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Austrian strategy, 1;
Capello’s banishment, 1;
ghosts, 1;
Italian advance, 1;
Italian defences, 1;
Italian forces, 1, 2;
Italian losses, 1n;
Italian offensive, 1;
Italian position, 1, 2;
landscape, 1n, 2;
no-man’s land, 1;
Pivko’s network, 1;
population, 1;
refugees, 1;
Vittorio Veneto Battle, 1, 2, 3
Asquith, Herbert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Avanti!, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Avarna, Duke of, 1
Avellino Brigade, 1
Badoglio, General Pietro: armistice negotiations, 1, 2, 3;
career, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Marinetti relationship, 1;
Sabotino capture, 1, 2;
Twelfth Battle performance, 1, 2, 3, 4n;
Yugoslav policy, 1, 2
Bainsizza plateau, 1, 2, 3, 4
Balkan War, First, 1, 2
Barbour, George, 1, 2
Barni, Giulio, 1, 2
Baruzzi, Lieutenant Aurelio, 1
Barzini, Luigi, 1, 2, 3, 4
Battisti, Cesare: death, 1, 2, 3; irredentist mission, 1, 2, 3;
treatment by Cadorna, 1
Below, General Otto von, 1, 2, 3, 4
Bencivenga, Colonel Roberto, 1, 2, 3
Benedict XV, Pope, 1, 2
Benjamin, Walter, 1
Bergamas, Antonio, 1
Bergson, Henri, 1
Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von, 1
Bianchi, Bruna, 1
Bismarck, Otto von: peace settlement (1866), 1, 2, 3;
view of Italy, 1;
War of 1866, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bissolati, Leonida: Cadorna relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4; on Caporetto defeat, 1;
career, 1;
territorial settlement policy, 1, 2
Bixio, Nino, 1
Blackburn, Gunner James, 1, 2
Blašković, Pero, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Boccioni, Umberto, 1
Bonamore, Virgilio, 1
Bonomini, Paolo, 1
Borgese, Giuseppe, 1, 2
Boroević von Bojna, General Svetozar: appearance and character, 1; armistice policy, 1;
border proposal, 1;
career, 1, 2, 3;
command, 1 ;
death, 1;
Emperor Karl’s visit, 1;
forces, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
forces’ hunger, 1, 2;
German criticisms of, 1;
Isonzo Second Battle, 1, 2;
Isonzo Third Battle, 1;
Isonzo Seventh Battle, 1, 2;
Isonzo Ninth Battle, 1, 2;
Isonzo Tenth Battle, 1, 2, 3 ;
Isonzo Eleventh Battle, 1, 2;
Isonzo Twelfth Battle, 1, 2 ;
Isonzo strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
on journalism, 1;
losses, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
military government, 1, 2 ;
Piave offensive, 1, 2, 3 ;
postwar life, 1;
shortages of men and supplies, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Vittorio Veneto Battle, 1, 2 ;
withdrawal (1918), 1
Borroni, Delfino, 1, 2
Borsetti, Patrizio, 1
Boselli, Paolo: Cadorna relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
fall, 1;
on peace overtures, 1;
prime minister, 1, 2, 3;
reputation, 1;
Sonnino relationship, 1;
on Triple Alliance, 1n
Bosnian Regiment, 4th, 1
Brenner Pass: Battisti’s explorations, 1;
Italian advance, 1 ;
Italian objective, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Italian Tyrol frontier, 1, 2;
traffic, 1
Brenta, River, 1, 2, 3
Brescia Brigade, 1, 2, 3
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, 1
Briand, Aristide, 1
Brooke, Rupert, 1
Brusati, General Roberto, 1, 2, 3
Brusati, Ugo, 1
Brusilov, General Aleksei, 1, 2, 3, 4
Buchan, John, 1
Bülow, Prince Bernhard von, 1, 2, 3
Cadorna, General Luigi: artillery, 1, 2, 3, 4; attitude to French and British, 1, 2, 3;
barbed wire issue, 1 ;
Battisti dismissal, 1 ;
belief in slancio, 1, 2;
British views of, 1, 2 ;
Brusati relationship, 1, 2;
Capello relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4;
career, 1, 2;
Carzano fiasco, 1, 2, 3;
Castelletto mining, 1;
censorship, 1, 2;
chaplain, 1;
character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
chief of general staff, 1, 2, 3;
civilian targets policy, 1;
conquests, 1;
criticisms of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
cult, 1 ;
D’Annunzio relationship, 1;
decimation policy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
defeatism criminalised, 1;
defence against Punishment Expedition, 1 ;
directives on military justice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
discipline, 1, 2, 3, 4 ;
dismissal, 1;
Dolomites strategy, 1, 2;
Duce, 1, 2, 3;
evacuations, 1;
Fifth Army, 1, 2;
gas, 173n; Gorizia shelling, 1 ;
government relations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
on infantry offensives, 1, 2, 3 ;
internment, 1;
Isonzo First Battle, 1, 2;
Isonzo Second Battle, 1, 2, 3;
Isonzo Third Battle, 1, 2, 3;
Isonzo Sixth Battle, 1, 2, 3, 4 ;
Isonzo Eighth Battle, 1 ;
Isonzo Ninth Battle, 1 ;
Isonzo Tenth Battle, 1, 2, 3 ;
Isonzo Eleventh Battle, 1, 2 ;
Isonzo Twelfth Battle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ;
Isonzo strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
King’s view of, 1, 2, 3, 4;
leadership, 1;
Lloyd George meeting, 1 ;
losses, 1, 2, 3, 4;
memo on deployment, 1;
memo on war strategy, 1;
on morale, 1, 2, 3;
on Mrzli assaults, 1;
network of military police and agents, 1;
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Nivelle’s visit, 1;
Ortigara assaults, 1 ;
on pacifist propaganda, 1, 2, 3;
preparations for war, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ;
press relations, 1 ;
press reports, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
promise on border security, 1;
purge of officer corps, 1;
regulation of free time, 1, 2;
replacement, 1, 2;
reserves, 1;
resignation threat, 1 ;
Salandra relationship, 1, 2;
self-justification, 1;
supply lines, 1;
Supreme Command at Udine, 1, 2;
on surrenders, 1;
trench construction, 1;
Trentino strategy, 1, 2, 3;
war experiences, 1;
vitalism, 1, 2, 3, 4;
writings, 1, 2, 3, 4
Cadorna, General Raffaele, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Caltanisetta Brigade, 1
Campobasso Brigade, 1
Capello, General Luigi: Cadorna relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; career, 1, 2, 3;
character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
forces, 1, 2;
illness, 1;
Isonzo Third Battle, 1;
Isonzo Sixth Battle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n;
Isonzo Tenth Battle, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Isonzo Eleventh Battle, 1 ;
Isonzo Twelfth Battle, 1, 2, 3, 4;
losses, 1, 2;
on morale, 1;
treatment of troops, 1
Caporetto (Kobarid): Austrian tactics, 1; Austrian troops, 1;
capture, 1, 2;
commission of inquiry, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Italian capture, 1;
Italian defeat (1917), 1, 2, 3, 4;
Italian occupation, 1;
Italian prisoners, 1;
landscape, 1, 2;
map of battle, 1;
myth of, 1 ;
see also Isonzo (Twelfth Battle)
Caprin, Giulio, 1
Carignani, General, 1
Carnia: Austrian position, 1; Italian forces, 1, 2, 3;
Italian position, 1, 2, 3;
population, 1;
weather, 1
Carnia Corps, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Carniel, Luisa, 1
Carso plateau: artillery, 1; Austrian assaults, 1, 2;
Austrian defences, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Austrian position, 1, 2;
barbed wire, 1;
border, 1, 2, 3;
Catanzaro Brigade, 1 ;
Corridoni monument, 1;
description of failed attack, 1;
evacuations, 1;
grottoes, 1, 2;
Isonzo Tenth Battle, 1, 2;
Italian advance, 1 ;
Italian border, 1;
Italian forces, 1;
Italian losses, 1, 2;
Italian positions, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Italian strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
landscape, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
map, 1;
Redipuglia cemetery, 1;
Slataper on, 1, 2;
struggle for the heights, 1;
type of warfare, 1 ;
weather, 1
Carzano, 1, 2, 3
Casale Brigade, 1
Castelletto, 1, 2
Catanzaro Brigade, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cavaciocchi, General Alberto, 1
Cavan, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Caviglia, General Enrico, 1, 2
Cavour, Count, 1, 2
Churchill, Winston, 1, 2, 3
Cialdini, General Enrico, 1
Clausewitz, Carl von: on defensive, 1, 2; on friction, 1;
on military virtue, 1;
principles, 1;
on vengeance, 1, 2;
on victory, 1;
on will, 1
Clemenceau, Georges, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Coda, Valentino, 1, 2
Col di Lana, Mount, 1, 2
Comisso, Giovanni, 1, 2
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 1
Conrad von Hötzendorf, General Count Franz: Cadorna relationship, 1;
career, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n;
character, 1 ;
Falkenhayn relationship, 1, 2;
on Grappa expedition, 1;
Isonzo forces, 1, 2;
Krauss proposal, 1;
love affair, 1 ;
Punishment Expedition, 1, 2, 3, 4;
racial views, 1, 2;
Solstice Battle, 1, 2n;
strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Trentino strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
view of Italians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Corridoni, Filippo, 1
Corriere della Sera, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1, 2
Cosich, Mount, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Costanzo, Pasquale, 1, 2
Crispi, Francesco, 1
Croce, Benedetto, 1, 2, 3
Čukla, 1, 2
Czechoslovak Legion, 1
Czernin, Count Ottokar, 1
da Verona, Guido, 1
D’Adamo, Agostino, 1
Dallolio, General Alfredo, 1
Dalmatia: Croat population, 1; D’Annunzio’s views, 1, 2;
Italian demands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Italian landings, 1;
Italian population, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Mazzini’s view, 1;
Treaty of London, 1;
troops, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
war aims, 1;
Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 1, 2, 3 ;
Yugoslav tourism, 1
Dalton, Lieutenant Hugh, 1
D’Annunzio, Gabriele: Albertini relationship, 1, 2, 3, 4; appearance and character, 1;
debts, 1, 2, 3;
Fiume occupation, 1, 2;
insults to Wilson, 1;
Marinetti relationship, 1;
political views, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on PoWs, 1;
rebel threat to, 1;
reputation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
speeches, 1, 2, 3, 4;
supporters, 1;
Timavo operation, 1 ;
on victory, 1;
Vienna flight, 1n;
war exploits, 1, 2 ;
writings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Dante Alighieri, 1, 2, 3
De Gasperi, Alcide, 1
democracy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
De Rossi, Colonel, 1, 2
Del Bianco, Giovanni, 1n
Delmé-Radcliffe, General Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4
Di Nardo, Antonio, 1
di Robilant, General, 1
di Stolfo, Renato, 1
Diaz, General Armando: advance, 1, 2; on anti-war feeling, 1;
assaults, 1;
career, 1;
character, 1;
command, 1, 2;
defensive strategy, 1;
Fiume policy, 1;
forces, 1, 2, 3, 4;
intelligence, 1;
Piave offensive, 1 ;
press relations, 1;
on pro-Yugoslav propaganda, 1;
treatment of troops, 1 ;
Victory Bulletin, 1, 2;
Vittorio Veneto Battle, 1, 2
Dodecanese Islands, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Dolomite mountains, 1, 2, 3, 4
Dos Passos, John, 1
Douhet, Colonel Giulio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Duino, 1, 2, 3
Duse, Eleonora, 1, 2
Edward, Prince of Wales, 1
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, 1
Etna, General, 1, 2
Eugen, Archduke, 1
Fabbrovich, Ferruccio, 1, 2
Fabi, Lucio, 1
Faidutti, Monsignor Luigi, 1
Fajti, hill, 1, 2, 3
Falkenhayn, General Erich von, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Falzarego Pass, 1n, 2, 3, 4
Fambri, Paolo, 1
fascism, fascist, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16n, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21n, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28n, 29
Favetti, Guid
o, 1, 2
Ferguson, Captain L., 1
Ferrara Brigade, 1, 2, 3
Finnigan, Gunner Alfred, 1
Finzi, Major Cesare, 1, 2
Fischer, Ernst, 1
Fisher, Admiral John (‘Jackie’), 1
Fiume: D’Annunzio’s occupation, 1, 2; French policy, 1;
Italian annexation, 1;
Italian claims, 1, 2;
Italian occupation, 1 ;
Paris conference issue, 1, 2, 3;
strategic value, 1, 2;
Treaty of London, 1n, 2;
Yugoslavian after WWII, 1
Flitsch: Austrian bombardment, 1; Austrian strategy, 1, 2, 3, 4;
German gas attack, 1;
Italian advance, 1;
Italian occupation, 1;
Italian position, 1, 2;
landscape, 1, 2, 3, 4;
strategic importance, 1;
upper Isonzo, 1n, 2
Florence Brigade, 1
Foch, General Ferdinand, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria: army, 1; assassination attempt, 1;
death, 1 ;
religion, 1n;
Tyrol, 1, 2;
Venetia handover, 1 ;
Venice visit, 1;
on war with Italy, 1, 2
Friuli: border, 1, 2, 3; cost to Italy, 1;
defences, 1;
evacuees, 1, 2;
internees, 1, 2;
Italian claims, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Italian forces, 1, 2;
Italian gains, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Italian position, 1, 2;
King’s visit, 1;
landscape, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
population, 1 ;
rail communications, 1;
religion, 1
Friuli Brigade, 1
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