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The advance of the Central Powers into Cadorna’s headquarters, film still, A/D 1917

This Austria-German footage shows the advance of the Central Powers into Italian territory during the twelfth battle of the Isonzo in late autumn 1917. The film can be viewed at the viewing stations in the study centre of the Film Archive Austria.

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    Pyrrhic Victory and Failure on the Isonzo

    After orders were refused among his military units, Italy’s Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna realised that the soldiers needed a break. Yet his measures gave the impression after the eleventh Isonzo battle (mid-August to mid-September 1917) that he would soon go back on the offensive. Adequate defence positions were dispensed with. All guns remained on the foremost front line.