Last year I wrote a brief analysis of the First Battle of the Isonzo. Now nearing the ninety-fifth anniversary of the first Isonzo battle I thought it might be somehow fitting to highlight the connections between this engagement and the Second World War. Recently I read a post over at The Spitfire Site, where an ongoing post-blogging project on the Battle of Britain addressed Italy’s entrance into the war. The similarities between the Italian assaults against Austrian-Hungarian positions during the First World War and the invasion of France in the Second World War are striking.
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Ninety-four years ago, Austria-Hungary and Italy slugged it out in the first of twelve battles along the Isonzo River. Having just entered the Great War on behalf of the Entente, the Italians endeavored to make a quick and substantial impact on the territory under the control of the Austrian-Hungarian forces along their border. With the aim of driving the forces of Austria-Hungary off the Isonzo River and out of the eastern sector (modern day Slovenia), the Italians launched poorly planned infantry based assaults on 23 June 1915.
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