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26 November 1917 : Unterjäger Bernard Halbeisen

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Bernard Halbeisen was born in 1895 and living in the South Tyrol. A builder before the war, he enlisted into the army in July 1914 and saw his first actions against the Russians in Galicia before moving to the Italian Front in late 1915 where he was to remain until his death. During this period, Bernard was to be awarded the Tapferkeitsmedaille...

Ep. 91 – The Morale of the Italian Army in the First World War – Dr Vanda Wilcox

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Historian Dr Vanda Wilcox, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at John Cabot University, talks about her recent book on the morale of the Italian Army during the Great War which has just been published in paperback by Cambridge University Press (from 20.12.2018). You...

“Redipuglia Italian 3rd Army Memorial” - James Paul Smyth

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This talk is about the largest war memorial in Italy and one of the largest in the world, housing the remains of 100,187 Italian soldiers killed between 1915 and 1917 in the battles fought on the Karst and Isonzo Front. James regularly visits the area and has family there. One of his relatives served in the Austrian forces in the First World War...