Map of the Trentino, part of "Italia Irredenta," unredeemed Italy: Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and Alto Adige)

Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and Alto Adige)

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Venezia Tridentina (Trentino and South Tyrol)

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Border between Trentino and Alto Adige

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Message dated December 14, 1917

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Saturday, June 15, 1918

"The offensive was launched with equal fury along an unbroken line of attack stretching from the Asiago front opposite the British, right round by Grappa, the Montello, and the course of the Piave down to the sea. At dawn on June 15th it began along this great stretch of ground with a bombardment of terrible efficiency. Some of the British officers told me they had never seen better shooting or a hotter barrage in France. The result was that early that morning the Austrians carried with little resistance almost the whole front line of the Allies from Asiago to the marshes at the Piave mouth.

But their success in the mountains was short lived. The British, furious at losing any ground to the Austrians, drove them out again with fearful slaughter, and pursued them into their own lines, where all resistance ceased. The reactions of the French and Italians on the mountain front was also very rapid."

Quotation Context

Excerpt from the account by British historian G. M. Trevelyan of the Austro-Hungarian Piave Offensive fought across Trentino and along the Piave River to the floodplain and mouth of the Piave River. After the Italian disaster of the Battle of Caporetto the French and British sent troops to Italy to help prevent another collapse. The Germans hoped to tie down these troops on the Italian Front, and prevent them and Italian troops from being sent to the Western Front where their fourth of five 1918 offensives had just been suspended. During the war, Trevelyan commanded a British Red Cross unit on the Italian Front.

Source

The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. VI, 1918, p. 224, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920

Tags

1918-06-15, June, 1918, Piave, Battle of the Piave, Asiago