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Battle of Caporetto (1917)
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24 Oct-19 Nov 1917 — German-Austrian stormtroops (a young Rommel among them) infiltrate through fog and collapse the Isonzo front: Italy loses 300,000 prisoners and falls back 130 km to the Piave — where, remade, it holds.
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- WWI in 1917, the year of crisis (chapter 10 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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