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IN-MAY 1915, Italy announced battle on the Habsburg Empire. The effect was one of the very most hopeless and senseless wars of contemporary times. Practically 750,000 Italians and half as many Austro-Hungarian soldiers were killed. To keep up discipline in the face of desperation and low morale, Basic Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random associates of models that retreated or rebelled. With great skill and pathos, Make Thompson relates the saga of the Italian entrance. A work of epic size, The White Warfare does justice to one of the very most remarkable untold testimonies of the First World Warfare.