Only one event could be selected for this month, the glorious defense of Mt San Gabriele. In August 1917, the Italian army launched a major offensive in the south-eastern sector [ … ]
Category: War diary
August 1917 Fajti Hrib
If we have to mark two places on the Italian front where the biggest battles took place, and which are mentioned most often in Hungarian reminiscences and historiography, then the [ … ]
July 1917: Magura Casinului
This site is now entering its fourth year, just as in July 1917 the war had already lasted three full years. In editing the blog, I myself experience the downsides [ … ]
June, 1917: Kostanjevica
Two years after the opening of the Italian front, the attackers who entered the territory of the Monarchy were able to occupy an approximately 20-kilometer deep strip along the lower [ … ]
May, 1917: the Otranto battle
I wrote relatively little about the Austro-Hungarian navy. The main reason for this is that essentially only three more serious operations were carried out by the surface fleet. The first [ … ]
April 1917: Second battle of Gaza
In December 1916, the Egyptian corps of the British forces repelled the second offensive launched by the Turks against Suez and launched a counterattack. As a result, the front was [ … ]
March 1917: attack on the Magyaros roof
Winter warfare continued this month. Exhausted troops carried out smaller actions. No major operations took place on the fronts of the Monarchy. Among the enterprises, the attack on the Magyaros [ … ]
February 1917 on the Carst
The fourth year of the war welcomed troops who had already suffered a lot, and hinterlands that had reached the limit of their ability to perform, all over Europe. This [ … ]
January 1917 in Volhynia
There is a very curious badge that shows a German and a A-H infantryman. In their hands, as in the case of the saints, are weapons as a sign of [ … ]
December 1916
In February 1915, Turkey launched an unsuccessful attack on the British-controlled Suez Canal. The attack was repeated in July 1916. An Austro-Hungarian artillery unit, the von Marno Artillery Division, also [ … ]