Caporetto

In October 1917, near the little frontier town of Caporetto, the Austrians with their German allies achieved an unexpected breakthrough in what is called the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo.

The Italian language has an expression, it was a Caporetto, to indicate a devastating defeat.

The book is based on World War One's Italian Front, which involved trench warfare high in the Trentino, Dolomite and Caporetto mountains on the borders of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

“The cars are all away. There are six up north at Caporetto. You know Caporetto?”

They had been sent to Italy as re�nforcements, after the disaster of Caporetto, and now they were being hurriedly recalled, to defend their own soil, which was again in danger.