The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Autor Mark Thompsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2010 – vârsta de la 13 ani
In
May
1915,
Italy
declared
war
on
the
Habsburg
Empire.
Nearly
750,000
Italian
troops
were
killed
in
savage,
hopeless
fighting
on
the
stony
hills
north
of
Trieste
and
in
the
snows
of
the
Dolomites.
To
maintain
discipline,
General
Luigi
Cadorna
restored
the
Roman
practice
of
decimation,
executing
random
members
of
units
that
retreated
or
rebelled.
With
elegance
and
pathos,
historian
Mark
Thompson
relates
the
saga
of
the
Italian
front,
the
nationalist
frenzy
and
political
intrigues
that
preceded
the
conflict,
and
the
towering
personalities
of
the
statesmen,
generals,
and
writers
drawn
into
the
heart
of
the
chaos.
A
work
of
epic
scale,The
White
Wardoes
full
justice
to
the
brutal
and
heart-wrenching
war
that
inspired
Hemingway'sA
Farewell
to
Arms.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465020379
ISBN-10: 0465020372
Pagini: 488
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465020372
Pagini: 488
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
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Notă biografică
Mark
Thompsonholds
a
PhD
in
Social
Sciences
from
Cambridge.
The
author
ofForging
WarandA
Paper
House,
he
lives
in
Oxford,
England.
Recenzii
Max
Hastings,New
York
Review
of
Books
“Mark Thompson, a young British writer, can claim a notable achievement with his narrative history of Italy?s World War I experience. With authority, sympathy, and unusual literary skill, he illuminates an aspect of the conflict about which some of us feel embarrassed to have known so little. The battlefield saga is sufficiently fascinating, but eclipsed by the portrait of Italy?s social and cultural experience within which the author sets it.... Thompson?s book gives a fascinating, indeed brilliant, portrait of a society immolated by its own delusions.”<
The Economist(Best Books of the Year)
“A startling indictment of the Italian state?s conduct during the first world war, which shows how Italy?s nationalist dream of expansion would turn into the Fascist nightmare.”
John McCourt,Irish Times
“Brilliant.... In presenting this conflict with such uncompromising focus and detail, Thompson has successfully accomplished a necessarily uncomfortable act of remembrance.... It should be hailed as the best account yet of what Hemingway described as `the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery? of the Great War and of the experiences of the vast majority of Italian soldiers who, in Giovanni Comisso?s words, had little or no knowledge of `what they had done, or why.?”
“Mark Thompson, a young British writer, can claim a notable achievement with his narrative history of Italy?s World War I experience. With authority, sympathy, and unusual literary skill, he illuminates an aspect of the conflict about which some of us feel embarrassed to have known so little. The battlefield saga is sufficiently fascinating, but eclipsed by the portrait of Italy?s social and cultural experience within which the author sets it.... Thompson?s book gives a fascinating, indeed brilliant, portrait of a society immolated by its own delusions.”<
The Economist(Best Books of the Year)
“A startling indictment of the Italian state?s conduct during the first world war, which shows how Italy?s nationalist dream of expansion would turn into the Fascist nightmare.”
John McCourt,Irish Times
“Brilliant.... In presenting this conflict with such uncompromising focus and detail, Thompson has successfully accomplished a necessarily uncomfortable act of remembrance.... It should be hailed as the best account yet of what Hemingway described as `the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery? of the Great War and of the experiences of the vast majority of Italian soldiers who, in Giovanni Comisso?s words, had little or no knowledge of `what they had done, or why.?”
The
Weekly
Standard
“[A] study as pioneering as it is brilliant.... Drawing on an impressive array of British, Italian, and Austrian sources, including fascinating interviews with survivors, Thompson re-creates the Italo-Austrian conflict in all its facets.... The White War is the work of a bright young historian proving his mettle.”
Dallas Morning News
“Thompson?s book is a comprehensive work following the causes, culture and combat of Italy?s war against Austria-Hungary and Germany.... It?s worthwhile reading and remembering, particularly when trying to comprehend what price victory.”
Robert Fox,Evening Standard
“Brilliant.... It is the first general history of the serial incompetence and brutality of the war in north-eastern Italy between 1915 and 1918, which makes it exceptional enough. In its elegant sweep of cultural and political as well as martial themes, it stands alone: it is one of the outstanding history books of the year.”
Christopher Duggan,Times Literary Supplement
“Mark Thompson?s wonderfully rich and poignant study, beautifully written and based on a detailed first-hand knowledge of the terrain in question as well as an impressive array of published Italian sources shows graphically why the events of 1915-18 had such a searing effect on the country?s national psyche.”
“[A] study as pioneering as it is brilliant.... Drawing on an impressive array of British, Italian, and Austrian sources, including fascinating interviews with survivors, Thompson re-creates the Italo-Austrian conflict in all its facets.... The White War is the work of a bright young historian proving his mettle.”
Dallas Morning News
“Thompson?s book is a comprehensive work following the causes, culture and combat of Italy?s war against Austria-Hungary and Germany.... It?s worthwhile reading and remembering, particularly when trying to comprehend what price victory.”
Robert Fox,Evening Standard
“Brilliant.... It is the first general history of the serial incompetence and brutality of the war in north-eastern Italy between 1915 and 1918, which makes it exceptional enough. In its elegant sweep of cultural and political as well as martial themes, it stands alone: it is one of the outstanding history books of the year.”
Christopher Duggan,Times Literary Supplement
“Mark Thompson?s wonderfully rich and poignant study, beautifully written and based on a detailed first-hand knowledge of the terrain in question as well as an impressive array of published Italian sources shows graphically why the events of 1915-18 had such a searing effect on the country?s national psyche.”
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Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915.
Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915.