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📱 eBook en inglés THE WHITE WAR

Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919

FABER & FABER - 9780571250080

Historia Universal Historia universal

Sinopsis de THE WHITE WAR

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its lost territories of Trieste and Tyrol. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless modern wars - and one that inspired great cruelty and destruction. Nearly three-quarters of a million Italians - and half as many Austro-Hungarian troops - were killed. Most of the deaths occurred on the bare grey hills north of Trieste, and in the snows of the Dolomite Alps. Outsiders who witnessed these battles were awestruck by the difficulty of attacking on such terrain. General Luigi Cadorna, most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. Italy sank into chaos and, eventually, fascism. Its liberal traditions did not recover for a quarter of a century - some would say they have never recovered.

Mark Thompson relates this nearly incredible saga with great skill and pathos. Much more than a history of terrible violence, the book tells the whole story of the war: the nationalist frenzy that led up to it, the decisions that shaped it, the poetry it inspired, its haunting landscapes and political intrigues; the personalities of its statesmen and generals; and also the experience of ordinary soldiers - among them some of modern Italys greatest writers.

A work of epic scale, The White War does full justice to one of the most remarkable untold stories of the First World War.

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Ficha técnica


Editorial: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571250080

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 06/08/2009

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Escrito por Mark Thompson


Mark Thompson (Reino Unido, 1957) es Presidente y Consejero Delegado de The New York Times Company desde 2012. Del 2004 al 2012 fue Director General de la BBC, y del 2002 al 2004 Consejero Delegado de Channel 4 Television Company. En 2012 fue profesor invitado de retórica y el arte de la persuasión pública en la Universidad de Oxford.

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