Help our glorious troops by subscribing to a war loan paying 5 1/2%. Imperial Russian Soldiers in a snow-covered trench, rifles at the ready. War Bond Postcard dated October 15, 1916.
Всто должны помогать нашимъ славнымъ войскам и кто можетъ долженъ подписатьсяна 5 1/2%ВОЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМЬ.ESPO should help our glorious troops, and those who can should subscribe5 1/2%War Loan.Reverse:ОТКРЫТОЕ ПИСЬМОOpen Letter15-X-1916October 15, 1916
"The bombardment began early on 6 August, pounding the Austrian lines all the way from Tolmein to the sea, before drawing in to San Michele and Gorizia. Cadorna's gunners had never been so effective. The Austrian lines were shrouded in smoke, their command centres disabled, many observation posts destroyed, and communications wrecked. Boroević telegraphed the Army High Command for urgent reserves and heavy artillery. He had underestimated the enemy build-up, partly because it was well concealed (with Cadorna making highly visible visits to Trentino. The Austrians had assumed that the new government in Rome would want more time before launching its first offensive."
After facing five Italian offensives in one year along the Isonzo River in northeastern Italy, Austro-Hungarian Commander in Chief Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf launched the Asiago Offensive on May 14, 1916 in Trentino, striking behind the Italian armies, hoping to cut them off with a successful drive to the Adriatic Sea. Surprised by the successful attack, General Luigi Cadorna shifted troops from the Isonzo to Trentino, while the government pleaded with the Russians for a relief offensive against Austria-Hungary. Russian General Alexsie Brusilov responded with one of the greatest and most successful offensives of the war, one that threatened to destroy the Austro-Hungarian Army. Cadorna opened the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, his most successful, on August 6, 1916.
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson, page 170, copyright © 2008 Mark Thompson, publisher: Basic Books, publication date: 2009
1916-08-06, 1916, August, Cadorna, Luigi Cadorna, Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, Isonzo, Sixth Isonzo
