![]() While the main Italian effort is now over, they are still staging local assaults. The Italians have failed again to smash through the Austro-Hungarians, though for a while it did look like the defenders of the Carso Plateau would collapse before the Italian onslaught. The Tenth Battle of the Isonzo is winding down. Luigi Cadorna (The Italian Monarchist: Marshal of Italy Luigi Cadorna) 1 Comment The Austro-Hungarians surely cannot take much more of this. Now Cadorna begins preparations for the eleventh battle. Austro-Hungarian losses are lower, with perhaps 75,000 total casualties but only 7,300 killed. In its three weeks the Italians have taken some 150,000 casualties, including 36,000 killed. Thus ends the Tenth Battle of the Isonzo. He is also furious at the men who surrender and wishes that he could ask Boroevic, his Austro-Hungarian counterpart, to have them flogged. He writes to Prime Minister Boselli to denounce the defeatist prattling of the politicians that has led to his soldiers throwing down their arms. The numbers who surrender suggest that a crisis of morale is building in the Italian army.Ĭadorna is furious at the success of the Austro-Hungarian counter-attack. Of these some 10,000 are taken prisoner, with rumours of entire regiments (including officers) surrendering without firing a shot. They suffer some 22,000 casualties in the fighting. More striking though are the losses it inflicts on the Italians. ![]() The Austro-Hungarian counter-attack successfully recovers some of the ground lost. Now they use these to stage a counter-attack on the Italians. ![]() ![]() At the height of the battle, when an Italian breakthrough appeared to be a real possibility, the Germans permitted the Austro-Hungarians to transfer two divisions from the Eastern Front to the Isonzo. The battle appeared to be winding down, but it turns out the Austro-Hungarians have a surprise in store for the Italians. This tenth offensive has made some progress at heavy cost but the Austro-Hungarians have been able to contain the Italian advance. Italian troops have been attacking on the Isonzo. ![]()
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