Description
Author: Wilks, John & Eileen
Publisher: Leo Cooper
Place: Barnsley
Cover: stiff wrappers
Condition: New Book
Category: WW1 Military
Year: 2001
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: 262pp., maps & plans, appends., bibliog., indexes, The Austro-German attack at Caporetto in 1917 produced a full scale breakthrough which forced the Italian armies to retreat from near the Austrian frontier to within twenty miles of Venice. Young Lieutenant Rommel had the good fortune to be part of one of the German units which led the attack on the Italian positions. The masterly German plan carried out by some of the best German and Austrian troops immediately established a war of movement which offered fine opportunities to ambitious young officers. No one made greater use of these opportunities than Erwin Rommel
