Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook659 pages7 hours
Hell in the Trenches: Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and Italian Arditi in the Great War
By Paolo Morisi
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and the Italian Arditi of World War I were elite special forces charged with carrying out bold raids and daring attacks. These units were comprised of hand-picked soldiers that possessed above-average courage, physical prowess as well as specific combat skills. Many military historians have argued that the First World War was mainly a static conflict of positional attrition, but these shock troops were responsible for developing breakthrough tactics of both fire and movement that marked a significant change to the status quo. Both armies used special assault detachments to capture prisoners, conduct raids behind enemy lines and attack in depth in order to prepare the way for a broad infantry breakthrough. This account traces the development of Austrian and Italian assault troop tactics in the context of trench warfare waged in the mountainous front of the Alps and the rocky hills of the Carso plateau. It not only examines their innovative tactics but also their adoption of vastly improved new weapons such as light machine-guns, super-heavy artillery, flamethrowers, hand grenades, daggers, steel clubs and poison gas.
This book offers a narrative of the organizational development of the shock and assault troops, of their military operations and their combat methods. The bulk of the chapters are devoted to a historical reconstruction of the assault detachments' combat missions between 1917-18 by utilizing previously unreleased archival sources such as Italian and Austrian war diaries, official manuals, divisional and High Command reports and the soldiers' own recollections of the war. Finally, it offers a comprehensive description of their uniforms, equipment, and weapons, along with a large number of illustrations, maps and period photographs rarely seen.
This epic trial of military strength of these special stormtroops cannot be properly understood without visiting, and walking, the battlefields. The appendix thus offers the reader a series of walks to visits key high mountain fortifications in the Italian Dolomites, many of which have attained almost legendary status.
This book offers a narrative of the organizational development of the shock and assault troops, of their military operations and their combat methods. The bulk of the chapters are devoted to a historical reconstruction of the assault detachments' combat missions between 1917-18 by utilizing previously unreleased archival sources such as Italian and Austrian war diaries, official manuals, divisional and High Command reports and the soldiers' own recollections of the war. Finally, it offers a comprehensive description of their uniforms, equipment, and weapons, along with a large number of illustrations, maps and period photographs rarely seen.
This epic trial of military strength of these special stormtroops cannot be properly understood without visiting, and walking, the battlefields. The appendix thus offers the reader a series of walks to visits key high mountain fortifications in the Italian Dolomites, many of which have attained almost legendary status.
Unavailable
Author
Paolo Morisi
Paolo Morisi is a military historian who has written extensively on the Italian Army during World War One and Two. He has published several books and articles on such topics as the Folgore Parachute Division, the Alpini and Austro-Hungarian stormtroopers of the First World War, the Savoia Marchetti S.79 torpedo bomber and the Axis air forces of the Second World War.
Related to Hell in the Trenches
Related ebooks
German Tactics In The Michael Offensive March 1918 Development Of Tactics - World War I [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRommel & Caporetto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell in the Trenches: Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and Italian Arditi in the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe German Army Handbook of 1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Disaster Ending in Final Victory: The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Volume Iii Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The British Army in Italy 1917-1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance for Total Victory Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The German 66 Regiment First World War: The German Perspective Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBourlon Wood: Hindenburg Line Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Covered With Mud And Glory: A Machine Gun Company In Action ("Ma Mitrailleuse") Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarshal Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East - History of the Turning Point in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVerdun 1917: The French Hit Back Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemories Of Forty-Eight Years’ Service [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBritish Army 1914-1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5United States Army in WWII - the Mediterranean - Salerno to Cassino: [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe German Army on the Western Front 1915 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Desert Raids with the SAS: The Wartime Experiences of Major Anthony Hough—Action, Capture and Escape Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPioneers of Irregular Warfare: Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department of the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Hussar Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrusader: General Donn Starry and the Army of His Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Desert War: Then And Now Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Germany’s Western Front: 1914: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Part 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSnapdragon: The World War II Exploits of Darby's Ranger and Combat Photographer Phil Stern Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe German Army in the Spring Offensives 1917: Arras, Aisne & Champagne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSix Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Traffic War, November 1941–March 1942 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Wars & Military For You
Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related podcast episodes
159 - The Aztec Eagles 0% found this document useful32 | Campbell 0% found this document usefulRommel: The Desert Fox 0% found this document useful30YearsWar: 17th Century Warfare Episode 4: Theory Under Siege 0% found this document useful30YearsWar: 17th Century Warfare Episode 14: War In All Worlds 0% found this document useful74.13 Eastern and Western Fronts 1915 0% found this document useful146 - Stop Lines 0% found this document usefulJeremy Black, "How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815" (Casemate, 2021): An interview with Jeremy Black 0% found this document useful95: Interwar Airpower Pt. 4 - Axis of Airpower 0% found this document usefulIconic Ships 10: Ark Royal 0% found this document useful30YearsWar: 17th Century Warfare Episode 13: A Tale of Two Sieges 0% found this document usefulBarbarossa: The war in the east 0% found this document useful3.21 Fall and Rise of China: Second Opium War #3: Battles for the Taku Forts 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Panzerartillerie Firepower For The Panzer Divisions History of WarArticle
Panzerartillerie Firepower For The Panzer Divisions
Apr 18, 2019
Author Thomas Anderson Publisher Osprey Publishing Price £30 As the German Army formed their new doctrine of mobile warfare based around fast moving armoured columns (Blitzkrieg) in the 1930s, it became clear that artillery was going to be a major p
1 min readThe Nazi Invasion Of Poland History of WarArticle
The Nazi Invasion Of Poland
Aug 8, 2019
1 min readLuftwaffe And Top Billing Military TraderArticle
Luftwaffe And Top Billing
Jun 3, 2022
When it comes to desirability in collector circles, the Luftwaffe (LW) may take top billing. Which is interesting, for Kriegsmarine material is scarcer, Waffen-SS both rare and notorious. Heer mementos are lots more plentiful, but too often deemed “c
1 min read5 Best Books On Waterloo History of WarArticle
5 Best Books On Waterloo
Oct 4, 2018
Many books were released for the bicentennial of Waterloo, but few were as clearly written and as challenging as Glover’s monograph. Highlighting many myths about the battle, the author provides convincing evidence to support his version of the event
1 min readOperation Greif: Ss Behind The Lines History of WarArticle
Operation Greif: Ss Behind The Lines
Nov 28, 2019
1 min readFull Medal Jacket Military HistoryArticle
Full Medal Jacket
Sep 3, 2019
8 min readThe Long View World War IIArticle
The Long View
Dec 21, 2021
2 min readThe Battle Of Königgrätz, 1866 History of WarArticle
The Battle Of Königgrätz, 1866
Oct 31, 2019
2 min readRoyal Bavarian Jagdstaffel 23 Aviation HistoryArticle
Royal Bavarian Jagdstaffel 23
Mar 5, 2019
2 min readCambrai Dawn Of The Tank Age History of WarArticle
Cambrai Dawn Of The Tank Age
Oct 30, 2017
13 min readIn The Ranks History of WarArticle
In The Ranks
Jan 22, 2018
2 min readGrenztruppen All About HistoryArticle
Grenztruppen
Oct 10, 2019
1 min readTorch The Tower Wargames, Soldiers & StrategyArticle
Torch The Tower
Oct 6, 2023
5 min readBattle Famous : Turckheim History of WarArticle
Battle Famous : Turckheim
Oct 31, 2019
2 min readA Ridge Too Far Military HistoryArticle
A Ridge Too Far
Apr 13, 2021
10 min readRepublicans Win Spanish Civil War All About HistoryArticle
Republicans Win Spanish Civil War
Apr 23, 2020
6 min readPhillips And Arnold's Raid Along The Appomattox The First Battle Of Petersburg, 1781 Wargames, Soldiers & StrategyArticle
Phillips And Arnold's Raid Along The Appomattox The First Battle Of Petersburg, 1781
Mar 15, 2024
6 min readNormandy 17 June – 7 July 1944 History of WarArticle
Normandy 17 June – 7 July 1944
Feb 20, 2020
8 min readTiger vs T-34 History of WarArticle
Tiger vs T-34
Jul 12, 2018
9 min readThe New American Rifle That Came Under Assault VietnamArticle
The New American Rifle That Came Under Assault
Feb 4, 2020
8 min readPANZER II The Forgotten Star Of Germany’s Victories History of WarArticle
PANZER II The Forgotten Star Of Germany’s Victories
May 14, 2020
Panzers were the striking heart of Germany’s battle tanks during WWII. The most famous variants were the medium Panzer III and IV tanks that have dominated perceptions of German armoured warfare. However, the most numerous German tank in May 1940 was
4 min readPolish Airborne At Arnhem History of WarArticle
Polish Airborne At Arnhem
Sep 5, 2019
12 min readGame Reviews Wargames, Soldiers & StrategyArticle
Game Reviews
Sep 7, 2021
Stargrave supplement By Joseph McCulloch (Osprey Publishing 2021) £20.00 D20, Initiative-based alternate activation. And so it begins... with a new game there are bound to be new supplements. Quarantine 37 is the first supplement for Stargrave, Ospre
9 min readOnly Movement Brings Victory Wargames, Soldiers & StrategyArticle
Only Movement Brings Victory
May 7, 2021
5 min readBattle Of leuthen History of WarArticle
Battle Of leuthen
Oct 29, 2020
7 min readFRENCH STRATEGY IN 1940s SETS COURSE FOR THE U.S. LATER VietnamArticle
FRENCH STRATEGY IN 1940s SETS COURSE FOR THE U.S. LATER
Jul 30, 2019
2 min readErrancies MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
Errancies
Feb 11, 2020
3 min readDid Americans Invent The Tank? History of WarArticle
Did Americans Invent The Tank?
Nov 28, 2019
4 min readJohn Chard’s Revolver History of WarArticle
John Chard’s Revolver
Dec 27, 2019
1 min readEnter The Afrika Korps History of WarArticle
Enter The Afrika Korps
Oct 2, 2017
11 min read
Reviews for Hell in the Trenches
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews