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 [ … ]
Category: War diary
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 [ … ]
November 1916
The Act of 5th November was a declaration of the German and Austrian emperors to create the Kingdom of Poland. Poles regard this date as the day of rebirth of [ … ]
October 1916: counterattack on Romania
In the summer of 1916, after a long hesitation, Romania saw the moment to enter the Great War. The Germans were pressed by the British at the Somme, and the [ … ]
September 1916 death of Capt. Pour
Encouraged by the partial success of the 6th Battle of the Isonzo, the Italian command initiated another offensive operation in the lower reaches of the Isonzo in September. The attack [ … ]