Dominic Sandbrook
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Appearances Over Time
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The Italians advance through driving rain.
Two weeks.
It's really muddy.
They don't really get anywhere.
And that's that.
And at the end of that third battle, the Italians lost maybe 67,000 men killed and wounded.
But in this case, only 40,000 Austrians.
So the tide of war is turning.
Well, now you would think at this point, Cadorna would surely change tactics.
But no, he looks at the calendar.
He says, well, it's probably time for a fourth battle before the end of the year.
And he's convinced the Austrians must be running out of men now.
And he's not entirely wrong because in some places the Italians outnumber the Austrians three to one.
So he launches a fourth battle.
At this point, it's now very cold.
Lots of the Italians have got frostbite.
Their feet are so swollen with frostbite, they can't put their boots on.
Their hands are all purple and misshapen with the cold.
Lots of Italians by now have started to shoot themselves to get out of the war.
Yeah, I think so.