ER XXX
SOME NOTES ON NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

CHAPTER XXXI
ROME IN THE SPRING

CHAPTER XXXII
THE FIFTEENTH OF JUNE, 1918

CHAPTER XXXIII
IN THE TRENTINO

CHAPTER XXXIV
SIRMIONE AND SOLFERINO

CHAPTER XXXV
THE ASIAGO PLATEAU ONCE MORE

PART VI
THE LAST PHASE

CHAPTER XXXVI
THE MOVE TO THE PIAVE

CHAPTER XXXVII
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST BATTLE

CHAPTER XXXVIII
ACROSS THE RIVER

CHAPTER XXXIX
LIBERATORI

CHAPTER XL
THE COMPLETENESS OF VICTORY

CHAPTER XLI
IN THE EUGANEAN HILLS

CHAPTER XLII
LAST THOUGHTS ON LEAVING ITALY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Italian Troops Crossing a Snowfield in the Trentino

Railway Bridge over the Isonzo Wrecked by Austrian Shell Fire

Italian Mule Transport on the Carso

No. 3 Gun of the First British Battery in Italy

Casa Girardi and Italian Huts

Some of Our Battery Huts near Casa Girardi

The Eastern Portion of The Asiago Plateau

Road Behind Our Battery Position Leading to Pria Dell' Acqua

Chapel at San Sisto and Italian Graves

Huts on a Mountain Side in the Trentino

Lorries Leaving Asiago after Its Liberation

Captured Austrian Guns in Val D'Assa

LIST OF MAPS

Map of Northern Italy

Map of the Isonzo Front

Map of Val Brenta and the Asiago Plateau

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WITH BRITISH GUNS IN ITALY

PART I

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I

THE ANGLO-ITALIAN TRADITION AND ITALY'S PART IN THE WAR

Anglo-Italian friendship has been one of the few unchanging facts in
modern international relations. Since the French Revolution, in the
bellicose whirligig of history and of the old diplomacy's reckless dance
with death, British troops have fought in turn against Frenchmen and
Germans, against Russians and Austrians, against Bulgarians, Turks and
Chinamen, against Boers, and even against Americans, but never, except
for a handful of Napoleonic conscripts, against Italians. British and
Italian troops, on the other hand, fought side by side in the Crimea,
and, in the war which has just ended, have renewed and extended their
comradeship in arms in Austria and Italy, in France and in the Balkans.

During the nineteenth century Italy in her Wars of Liberation gained, in
a degree which this generation can hardly realise, the enthusiastic
sympathy and the moral, and sometimes material, support of all the best
elements in the British nation. There were poets--