This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...it will give place to kindlier thoughts when the ancient enemy knows himself beaten. In the meanwhile it seldom comes to the surface. What need to speak of that which everybody understands? So the Italian soldier goes quietly about his business, the least swaggering of warriors, patient, obedient, good-humoured, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...it will give place to kindlier thoughts when the ancient enemy knows himself beaten. In the meanwhile it seldom comes to the surface. What need to speak of that which everybody understands? So the Italian soldier goes quietly about his business, the least swaggering of warriors, patient, obedient, good-humoured, contented. Only when the chance comes to meet the Tedeschi man to man the smouldering fire blazes out. The Austrians are brave enough, and on the average they are bigger and heavier than their opponents. But they cannot face them with the bayonet. Contrary to what one might have expected they dread the Neapolitan and the Sicilian more than the hardier Piedmontese. These lithe, wiry, sunburnt, swift-footed children of the South sprint into the charge with wild shouts, and eyes that flash like their own knives. They have done terrible work on the Isonzo, and often enough the turbid waters of that stream have swum red with their own and the enemy's blood. None of the motley contingents of Austria, Germans, Slovaks, Croats, Magyars, or Tyrolese has much appetite for a point-to-point struggle with these fierce fighters. Some among them there must be who are the sons or the grandsons of the Garibaldians, the men who followed the Savoyard hero in triumph and defeat. They are fighting now for the vision of a Greater Italy under another Victor Emmanuel, a soldier as ardent and as keen as the Re Galantuomo, though he is not seen caracoling gloriously, sabre in air, on a high-stepping charger. It is not the way of the most unassuming of monarchs, and one of the bravest. Sometimes, when the fire is thickest, the soldier in the trenches, behind some breastwork splintering under the shell, will see beside him an officer, not of his own regiment, an officer withou...
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