Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914 from Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd. The empire's population included Germans, Magyars, Romanians, Italians, and Slavs including Croats, Serbians, Ruthenians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, and Slovenes.

Peoples of Austria-Hungary in 1914

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Sunday, September 17, 1916

". . . by the time Cadorna suspended the attack late on the 17th [September], Boroević's army was in tatters. As Italian production increased, the artillery gap had widened. The quality of Austrian rations was slipping. The draft was despatching middle-aged intakes to the front with little training. Ominously, combat performance was starting to fracture along ethnic lines."

Quotation Context

In an attempt to build on the success of his Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, Italian Commander in Chief Luigi Cadorna launched the the success of his Seventh Battle on September 13, 1916. General Boroević's Austro-Hungarian troops were mimicking the defensive tactics of German troops, lightly defending a front line, though supporting it with machine gun nests, so that casualties would be relatively light during the standard bombardment that preceded an infantry assault. Cadorna thought the Austro-Hungarians had two defensive lines; they had four.

Source

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson, page 220, copyright © 2008 Mark Thompson, publisher: Basic Books, publication date: 2009

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1916-09-17, 1916, September, Cadorna, Luigi Cadorna, Seventh Battle of the Isonzo, Seventh Isonzo, Battle of the Isonzo, Isonzo, Isonzo battle