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"Commencing on 30 September [1916] with a bombardment that lasted more than a week, counting interruptions for bad weather, the Eighth Battle [of the Isonzo] replayed the Seventh, except that Cadorna involved the Second Army more actively, attacking from the north while the Duke of Aosta's men pushed eastwards. The epicentre would be 800 metres wide, around the village of Nova Vas, where 10,000 men were massed. On 9 October, the shelling intensified into so-called 'annihilation fire', marking the climax before the infantry attacked. Even with more than a thousand guns, it was less the half the weight of equivalent bombardments on the Western Front."
Although the Austro-Hungarians stopped the Italian seventh offensive on the Isonzo, the battle had followed close on the heels of Italian success in Sixth Isonzo. With Austria-Hungary fighting Russia in Galicia and Romania in Transylvania, Italian commander Luigi Cadorna hoped for a breakthrough.
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson, page 221, copyright © 2008 Mark Thompson, publisher: Basic Books, publication date: 2009
1916-10-09, 1916, October, Battle of the Isonzo, Isonzo, Eighth Battle of the Isonzo, Cadorna
