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the Asiago plateau
Chapter XXX
some notes on national
characteristics
Chapter XXXI
Rome in the spring
Chapter XXXII
the fifteenth of June,
1918
Chapter XXXIII
in the Trentino
Chapter XXXIV
Sirmione and solferino
Chapter XXXV
the Asiago plateau once
more
Chapter XXXVI
the move to the Piave
Chapter XXXVII
the beginning of the
last battle
Chapter XXXVIII
across the river
Chapter XXXIX
Liberatori
Chapter XL
the completeness of victory
Chapter XLI
in the Euganean hills
Chapter XLII
last thoughts on leaving
Italy
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Italian Troops Crossing a Snowfield in the Trentino
Railway Bridge over the Isonzo Wrecked by Austrian Shell Fire
Italian Mule Transport on the Carso
No. 3 Gun of the First British Battery in Italy
Casa Girardi and Italian Huts
Some of Our Battery Huts near Casa Girardi
The Eastern Portion of The Asiago Plateau
Road Behind Our Battery Position Leading to Pria Dell’ Acqua
Chapel at San Sisto and Italian Graves
Huts on a Mountain Side in the Trentino
Lorries Leaving Asiago after Its Liberation
Captured Austrian Guns in Val D’Assa
LIST OF MAPS
Map of Northern Italy
Map of the Isonzo Front
Map of Val Brenta and the Asiago Plateau
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WITH BRITISH GUNS IN ITALY
PART I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I
THE ANGLO-ITALIAN TRADITION AND ITALY’S PART IN THE WAR
Anglo-Italian friendship has been one of the few unchanging facts in modern international relations. Since the French Revolution, in the bellicose whirligig of history and of the old diplomacy’s reckless dance with death, British troops have fought in turn against Frenchmen and Germans, against Russians and Austrians, against Bulgarians, Turks and Chinamen, against Boers, and even against Americans, but never, except for a handful of Napoleonic conscripts, against Italians. British and Italian troops, on the other hand, fought side by side in the Crimea, and, in the war which has just ended, have renewed and extended their comradeship in arms in Austria and Italy, in France and in the Balkans.
