A summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com:
'In this work, originally published in 1993, the Wilks, both British academics and Second World veterans, take a revisionist look at the role of British troops in Italy in the aftermath of the disastrous Italian reverse at Caporetto. They stand between the traditional versions of the events established in the immediate post-war period, in which the English and French claimed that only their troops saved the situation, while the Italians argued that no help was necessary. Although their concentration naturally is on British operations, they fill in the background to the events leading up to Allied intervention quite well, give a good, clear explanation of the causes of the Caporetto disaster, and an unusually good treatment of the largely overlooked Italian struggle that stabilized the front, with proper attention to the roles of the Austro-Hungarians and Germans in the crisis. The Wilks discuss the complex negotiations that brought Allied reinforcements, the politics of command and strategy, planning for further operations, and the final battles of the Piave and Vittorio Veneto. This is an excellent work, and at times almost amusing, as when the authors comment upon how in their accounts of the war in Italy all participants often omitted the contributions of the other side. A very valuable work, made available again.'
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