The white war
Subtitle: life and death on the Italian front, 1915-1919
By: Mark Thompson.
Publisher: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group; Basic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780465013295; 9780571223336; 9780465013296
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Italy, Northern
Description: This is the story of the First World War in Italy, a war that gave birth to fascism. Mussolini fought in these trenches, as did most of his collaborators. But so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian and German - Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2008 by Faber and Faber Limited"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-439) and index.