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"Cadorna had blown his last chance. The battle continued, with varying degrees of intensity and carnage but without any significant change of position, until 12 September [1917].. . . the deadly cost of attritional warfare, together with the Pope's condemnation of the war, had very seriously damaged the morale of the Italian soldiers. In terms of men killed, the Tenth Battle had cost the Italian army more than the previous nine battles put together, and the number of dead in the Eleventh Battle would exceed that for the Tenth Battle. The infantry had fought one battle too many."
Italian commander in chief Luigi Cadorna's Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo came at a time when Italian moral was low, and desertion rates climbing. Much of the battle took place along ridges two to three thousand feet high.
Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign: The Italian Front 1915–1918 by John MacDonald with Željko Cimprić, page 148, copyright © John MacDonald, 2011, 2015, publisher: Pen and Sword Books, publication date: 2011
1917-09-12, 1917, September, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, Eleventh Isonzo, Battles of the Isonzo, Cadorna, Luigi Cadorna
