Word: caporetto
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...story is minutely savage in its details and haunting in its outcome: perfect Hemingway. And of course, there is the water. Doctoral theses have been fished from all the waters and fluids in Hemingway -- lake water and trout stream and Gulf Stream and the rain after Caporetto and the endless washes of alcohol refracting in his brain. His style was a stream with the stones of nouns in it and a surface of prepositional ripples. Ford Madox Ford wrote that a Hemingway page "has the effect of a brook-bottom into which you look down through the flowing water...
WORLD WAR I (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The Italian front and the battle of Caporetto...
Suddenly disaster. The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves. In the confusion the hero is arrested as an enemy agent, but he escapes and deserts. He takes his girl to Switzerland, where they are blissfully happy. Then she dies in childbirth...
...Italian nation. All his life Orlando lived and labored as an Italian Nationalist, long after his kind of nationalism-and Orlando himself-had become an anachronism. He took over as Premier on that bleak October day in 1917 when the Austro-German armies burst through the Alps at Caporetto. The fact that Italy recovered and ended up on the winning side in 1918 earned for Orlando the title, "Premier of Victory." He never forgot...
...10th Mountain Division headquarters in Caporetto, all was Yank efficiency: maps, intelligence reports, crisp uniforms, shiny equipment, freshly shaved chins, in weird contrast to what we had seen on the road coming...