2-710-743 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'General Count Louis Cadorna', c1914, (1919). Portrait of Luigi Cadorna (1850-1928), Italian First World War general who was Chief of Staff of the Italian Army. '...a great strategist and tactician, and although sixty-four is a man of dynamic energy and unflagging industry. He is not only a great soldier, but he is also a man of letters, having written a work on the War of 1870, and is a recognised authority on the wars of the past century.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. IV, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]