Word: caporetto
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...when the Austrians broke through at Caporetto the world held its breath, dreading disaster. Speculations as to the immediate fall of Venice were rife, and it seemed as if this apparent defeat would be the final blow to the already laboring Allied cause. The Italian soldiers reached the Piave but went no further. They held their lines, standing at bay throughout the winter of 1917-18. With the spring the Teutonic allies started, their "Peace Drive", and the Austrians, strengthened by six months of intensive preparation, aimed their last terrific blow at the 100-mile long Piave front...
...outset I recognize that D-Annunzio is a poet and a soldier of more than ordinary ability, whose pen was fired by the late war. His spirit after the disaster of Caporetto, it is admitted, was admirable and buoyant. But with that, everything in his defence has been said; and, taken by and large, that is not much, for any man who failed to find spiritual inspiration in the late war cannot justify his existence on this earth...
Whatever the outcome of Flume might be, he who led the Italian people on the right side of war, he who sacrificed much for his country's sake, he who set aflame the hearts of patriotism after the disaster of Caporetto, he who with his "Arditi" answered, the touching appeal of a people about to be sacrificed, he, Gabriele D'Annunzio, will always be immortal to all true and loyal Italians! FRANK E. LA CAUZA...