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Six months on the Italian front

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Julius M. Price
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A war-artist correspondent records six months spent with the Italian army at the front, blending travel notes, illustrated sketches, and immediate battlefield reportage. He describes movement from major cities to frontline towns, dealings with military authorities and press censorship, everyday life under mobilisation, the challenges of mountain and Adriatic sectors, aerial raids on urban centres, and the logistical and tactical preparations that preceded assaults culminating in the capture of Gorizia. The narrative interweaves descriptive vignettes of trenches, troop movements, medical and supply work, and portraits of leadership and soldiery, offering vivid, on-the-spot impressions rather than technical strategic analysis.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
The Author in San Martino del Carso Frontispiece
During the entire day the onward march continued 11
Rugged and threatening, visible for miles around, is the frowning pinnacle of bare rock known as Monte Nero 26
It meant practically scaling a cliff of rock 38
A rude altar of rough boxes was set up 50
The King appeared indefatigable and was out and about in all weathers 62
Along the big military highway constructed by Napoleon 74
As he whirled past in the big car 88
The whole region was positively alive with warlike energy 100
A very useful-looking Nordenfeldt quick-firer mounted on the fore-deck 112
Before us stretched the broad valley of the Adige 124
On one of the worst portions we passed a gang of peasant women carrying barbed wire up to the trenches 136
One would have liked to spend an indefinite time in these scenes of warlike activity 148
But nothing had stopped the rush of the Italians 160
And came up with reinforcements hurrying forward 172
The least severely wounded occupants jumped out of the wagon 186
And day by day one heard of minor successes in Trentino 198
The object of this being to hide movements of troops and convoys 210
Two infantry regiments, the 11th and 12th, forded and swam across the river 222
The soldiers round us now began to move forward, and we were practically carried up the gully with them 234
I was fortunate enough to get some interesting sketches of the cavalry crossing the river under fire 246
The only difficulty the officers experienced was in getting them to advance with caution 258
They came racing across the stretch of “No Man’s Land” 270
A grey-haired officer of medium height, whom I immediately recognized as the Generalissimo, was reading an official document 283
To advance through the jungle called for all the cool, disciplined courage of the Italian soldier 291