Scenes from Italy's war . rt failed,and the doctors carried him off, an unwilling captive,to Rome. CHAPTER III. THE ISONZO FRONT, 1915-1916. Monte Sabotino—^The Quisca road—The bad winter—Battle and cholera—The King—^Mountain roads and road-making—^The genio—Fiats,and mules. nPHE frontier of three hundred miles of high Alps,extending in an undulating line from the Stelvio,on the Swiss border, down by Lago di Gar da, up againthrough the Carnic, and down again to the Julian Alps,had been rushed in the first days of the war. TheItalians had secured for themselves good positions onthe enemy side o
Scenes from Italy's war . rt failed,and the doctors carried him off, an unwilling captive,to Rome. CHAPTER III. THE ISONZO FRONT, 1915-1916. Monte Sabotino—^The Quisca road—The bad winter—Battle and cholera—The King—^Mountain roads and road-making—^The genio—Fiats,and mules. nPHE frontier of three hundred miles of high Alps,extending in an undulating line from the Stelvio,on the Swiss border, down by Lago di Gar da, up againthrough the Carnic, and down again to the Julian Alps,had been rushed in the first days of the war. TheItalians had secured for themselves good positions onthe enemy side of the watershed, which gave them asense of security behind the back of their offensive onthe more practicable Isonzo front. Neither party, untilthe Austrians in May 1916, attempted any serious ad-vance anywhere on the immense stretch of the higherAlps. The southernmost Alpine giant, Monte Nero, towershigh above Caporetto and Tolmino. Its capture by theAlpini in June 1915, one of the finest feats in the whole.
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