British Forces in Italy

[n cherry]

Anyone got any suggestions as to easily available 'decent' books on this campaign?

I believe there are a couple of Battleground Europe books on this front....are they any good as a starter for 10?

[squirrel]

The one on Asiago is not a bad read and has some pretty good detail.

[welshdoc]

Hi this is a "Guttenberg book" to the best of my understanding its ok to look at online

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10107/10107.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/World_War_I_...ow_Countries.29

hope this helps

[paul guthrie]

BE Asiago is by my friend Francis McKay and good and quite useful on the ground, I've been twice. There is another by a man and wife, can't remember name, has all the information but is dry dry dry! Will take a look at home.

[Chris_Baker]

I wouldn't start with the BE volumes if you want to understand the campaign.

Try

> George Cassar "The forgotten front: the British campaign in Italy 1917-1918"

> John and Eileen Wilks "The British army in Italy 1917-1918"

> The volume of the Official History, which is very good.

You might find this MA dissertation interesting too: http://www.firstworldwar.bham.ac.uk/edisse...issertation.pdf

[paul guthrie]

Thanks Chris, it's the Wilks book I was thinking of.

[n cherry]

Thanks to all...not for me and I'll pass all titles across to the bloke who asked.....

[Greenwoodman]

To go with Dalton's "With British Guns In Italy" which can be read online with Gutenberg, I would add "With the 48th Division In Italy" by Lt Col George Henry Barnet, Rev EC Crosse's "The Defeat of Austria as seen by the 7th Division" and "Across the Piave" by Norman Gladden.

Here's a pretty comprehensive Italy bibliography I've acquired over recent years:-

Atkinson, CT "The Seventh Division in the Great War"; London 1927 (Reprint by Naval & Military Press.)

Aston, J, Duggan, L "The 12th (Bermondsey) Bn East Surrey Regt in the Great War" London 1921 Reprinted by Naval and Military Press Ltd 2005.

Banks, A "A Military Atlas of the First World War"; Barnsley 1975

Barnett, GH "With the 48th Division in Italy" Edinburgh 1923

Carrington, CF "The War Record of the 1/5 R. Warwickshire Regt" Birmingham 1923

Caddick-Adams, P "By God they can fight!: History of 143 Brigade" Shrewsbury, 1997

Cassar, George H "The Forgotten Front, the British Army in Italy 1917-1918"; London, 1998

Corbett, Edward "1/8 Worcestershire" Private. Worcester 1920s

Crosse, EC "The Defeat of Austria as seen by the Seventh Division" London 1919

Crutwell, C "The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regt (TF)" Oxford 1922

Dalton, Hugh "With British Guns in Italy" London 1919 (2005 Reprint by Naval & Military Press) (ISBN: 1845740211) Lieutenant R.G.A.

Dopson, FW "The 48th Division Signals in the Great War" Bristol (private) 1938

Edmonds, JE "Official History of the War Military Operations Italy 1915-1919" London (Reprint 1986)

Eberle, VF "My Sapper Venture" London 1973

Falls, Cyril "Caporetto"

Gladden, Norman "Across the Piave" IWM London 1959

Glover, M "That Astonishing Infantry: The History of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1689-1989" London 1989

Goldsmid, CJH "Diary of a Liaison Officer in Italy1918" London 1920*

Halpern, PG "The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1914 -1918" London, 1987

Hemingway, Ernest "A Farewell to Arms" (ISBN: 0684801469)

Herwig, HH "The First World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918" London Arnold 1997

Hody, EH, "With the ‘Mad 17th’ to Italy" London 1920

Hussey, AH "The Fifth Division in the Great War" London, 1921

James, L "The History of King Edwards Horse" London 1923

Lambert, A "Over the Top" London 1922 7 (Reprint by Naval & Military Press 2002)

Lettau, JL "In Italy with the 332nd Infantry" Youngstown, Ohio 1921

Lusso, Emilio "Sardinian Brigade"

Mackay, F "Asiago, 15/16 June 1918 The Battle in the Woods and Clouds" Barnsley, 2001

Mackay, F "Touring the Italian Front; British, American, French & German Forces in Northern Italy, 1917-1918." 2003

McMillan, Norman. "Offensive Patrol" [iSBN 0 09 116180 0]

Mockler-Ferryman, AF "The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire LI Chronicle 1917-18" Oxford 1923

Monelli, Paolo "Toes Up" memoir

Morselli, M "Caporetto 1917: Victory or Defeat?" London Frank Cass 2001 (ISBN: 0714650730)

Pearse, HW, Sloman, H.S. "History of the East Surrey Regiment. Vol. 2-3,1914-1919." London 1933.

Pickford, P "War Record of the 1/4 Oxf & Bucks LI" Banbury 1919

Pirocchi, Angelo "Italian Arditi Elite Assault Troops 1917-20" (ISBN: 1841766860) Illustrator: Vuksic, Velimir

Sandilands, H R "The 23rd Division 1914-1918" Edinburgh 1925 (2003 Reprint by Naval & Military Press)

Schindler,JR Isonzo, "The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War" Westport 2001, Praeger 2001:

Seth, Ronald "Caporetto, The Scapegoat Battle;" London McDonald 1965

Smith N "Caporetto : 12th Battle of Isonzo."

Speakman H "From A Soldier’s Heart" Abingdon Press USA 1919

Stacke, HFM "The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War" Kidderminster 1929 Reprint Naval & Military Press)

Walker, G Goold, "The HAC in the Great War 1914-1919" London 1930,(Reprint 1986)

Ward, S "Faithful: The Story of the Durham Light Infantry" London 1962

[Greenwoodman]

Missed out the last three.

Wilks, J & Wilks, E "The British Army in Italy 1917-1919" Barnsley 1998

Wilks, J & Wilks, E "Rommel and Caporetto October, 1917" Barnsley 2001 (ISBN: 0850527724)

Wyrall, R E "The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-18" London 1931

A number of these were obviously named by earlier posters.