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Chapter II: Preface

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PART I INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I
THE ANGLO-ITALIAN TRADITION AND ITALY'S PART IN THE WAR

PART II SOME EARLY IMPRESSIONS

CHAPTER II
FROM FOLKESTONE TO VENICE

CHAPTER III
FROM VENICE TO THE ISONZO FRONT

CHAPTER IV
THE WAR ON THE ISONZO FRONT

CHAPTER V
PALMANOVA

CHAPTER VI
AQUILEIA AND GRADO

CHAPTER VII
A GRAMOPHONE AND A CHAPLAIN ON THE CARSO

CHAPTER VIII
A FRONT LINE RECONNAISSANCE

CHAPTER IX
AN EVENING AT GORIZIA

CHAPTER X
A CEMETERY AT VERSA

CHAPTER XI
UDINE

CHAPTER XII
THE BRITISH AND THE ITALIAN SOLDIER

CHAPTER XIII
I JOIN THE FIRST BRITISH BATTERY IN ITALY

PART III THE ITALIAN SUMMER OFFENSIVE, 1917

CHAPTER XIV
THE OFFENSIVE OPENS

CHAPTER XV
WE SWITCH OUR GUNS NORTHWARD

CHAPTER XVI
THE FALL OF MONTE SANTO

CHAPTER XVII
THE CONQUEST OF THE BAINSIZZA PLATEAU

CHAPTER XVIII
THE FIGHTING DIES DOWN

CHAPTER XIX
A LULL BETWEEN TWO STORMS

PART IV THE ITALIAN RETREAT AND RECOVERY

CHAPTER XX
THE BEGINNING OF THE ENEMY OFFENSIVE

CHAPTER XXI
FROM THE VIPPACCO TO SAN GIORGIO DI NOGARA

CHAPTER XXII
FROM SAN GIORGIO TO THE TAGLIAMENTO

CHAPTER XXIII
FROM THE TAGLIAMENTO TO TREVISO

CHAPTER XXIV
THOUGHTS AFTER THE DISASTER

CHAPTER XXV
FERRARA, ARQUATA AND THE CORNICE ROAD

CHAPTER XXVI
REFITTING AT FERRARA

PART V A YEAR OF RESISTANCE AND OF PREPARATION

CHAPTER XXVII
IN STRATEGIC RESERVE

CHAPTER XXVIII
THE FIRST BRITISH BATTERY UP THE MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER XXIX
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

PART VI THE LAST PHASE

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

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