The First World War-also known as the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918-left a significant mark on the twentieth century. Landscape, memorials, memories, monuments Keywords: Caporetto, cultural heritage, Great War, Hemingway, Isonzo Front, The winners (i.e., Italians) and the losers (i.e., non-Italians). The area that became part of Italy after the war hasīecome the subject of various heritage discourses, strategies, and practices of Consequently, all the horrors of war and human victims have alsoīeen forgotten alongside it. Involve English-speaking troops apparently are not worth exploring” (SchindlerĢ001: xiii). In battle, lie in the fact that “or most English-language historians, battlesĪnd campaigns of the Great War that did not happen on the Western Front or Schindler, the reasons for neglecting and forgetting thisįront, which involved over a million soldiers, over 300,000 of whom were killed To the First World War – specifically, the use and production of cultural heritageĭuring that period – with an emphasis on a lesser-known front in the “non-West”.Īccording to John R. This issue of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore is dedicated Visited by Dante Alighieri and that was described by Ernest Hemingway in one This was a territory that is believed to have been Was part of the pact between the Triple Entente and Italy, which declared war Reaches of the Isonzo River, by Italians, Friulians, and Germans. Inhabited by an ethnic Slovenian majority and, in the part along the southern Accordingly the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo was initiated some two months later on 19 August 1917.One of the greatest, most tragic, and largely overlooked campaignsĭuring the First World War was the Isonzo Front, which ran through an area With morale in the Italian army plunging Cadorna planned one further breakthrough attempt as he massed the greatest number of divisions and artillery yet along the Soča (Isonzo) river. Some fighting also took place in the northern sections of the front in the Julian Alps, where the Austro-Hungarians streanghtened their positions along the Vršič mountain ridge.Ĭasualties continued to be high: 157,000 Italian losses were sustained, with a further 75,000 Austro-Hungarian casualties. Nevertheless, a major Austro-Hungarian counter-offensive launched on 3 June reclaimed virtually all lost ground and by the time the battle was called off by Cadorna on 8 June little territory had been gained. By the close of May the Italian army had advanced to within 15km of Trieste almost reaching the coastal town of Duino, although subsidiary attacks elsewhere failed. The second aim of the offensive was to conquer Mount Škabrijel, thus opening the way to the Vipava Valley. This time the Italians returned to the Kras plateau south-east of Gorizia, setting in train an infantry advance along a 40 km front in order to achieve a breakthrough towards Trieste. The previous three Isonzo battles had seen Cadorna concentrate short, sharp initiatives against closely defined targets, generally aimed at extending their sole bridgehead east of Gorizia. The Italians, deploying 38 divisions - against only 14 of the Austro-Hungarians - switched tactics once again.
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