World's War Events

Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.

The Italians at Bay

12 pages in this part of World's War Events.

The Italians at Bay

G. WARD PRICE Udine as it seemed before the war.

The Italians at Bay: Udine

Bustle and congestion when Udine becomes Army Head-quarters. To this forgotten township of the old Venetian province had come suddenly in…

The Italians at Bay: British

General Cadorna praises the British batteries.

The Italians at Bay: Gorizia

Gorizia has suffered from the war.

The Italians at Bay: German

On October 22 we learned at Italian head-quarters that ten German divisions, about one hundred and twenty thousand men, had arrived behind…

The Italians at Bay: Monfalcone

Monfalcone the most romantic point in the fighting line. And as the sun was setting I went down to Monfalcone, to a place which could not…

The Italians at Bay: Triest

Triest, the coveted city, lay ten miles away in full view, and each night the Italians saw its windows answer with flashes of dull gold the…

The Italians at Bay: Italian

It was from that last fair glimpse of Triest that you turned back to the grave realities of situation. On the next morning, the…

The Italians at Bay: Tagliamento

Two Italian ladies follow the track By this time I had left the train, which had taken thirty hours to cover fifteen miles, and was walking…

The Italians at Bay: Padua

Finding the way to reach Padua.

The Italians at Bay: Piave

The new stand behind the Piave.

The Italians at Bay: Venice

But all preparations are being made to face the conceivable eventuality of another retirement. The most serious consequence that this would…

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