2-981-533 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Italians turn things around; Bodies of Austrian soldiers killed by Italian fire on the right bank of the Piave, which they had managed to cross on the morning of November 16, 1917, with a strategy: of the first enemy line presenting itself with raised arms as if to surrender, and men behind with grenades in their their pockets. At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 17th, the Italians had driven their adversaries back to the left bank who had made their last effort', 1917. From "L'Album de the 1914-1919 War, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].