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Podcast: World War 1 Stories & Real Battles
Episode: Battle of the Isonzo - May 23, 1915 - November 9, 1916 - [WW1 Stories & Real War Battles]
Description: In the early hours of a gray dawn, as the first light of day brushed the tops of the jagged Julian Alps, a fearsome thunder reverberated across the chasms, gorges, and swift, icy waters of the Isonzo River. It was not the fury of nature but the eruption of human conflict that had descended upon this once tranquil terrain. It was the year 1915, and Europe, ensnared in the clutches of a conflict unlike any before, had opened yet another front in its Great War. This was the opening scene of the Battle of the Isonzo, a series of violent...