Battle Of Caporetto Page

The Battle of Caporetto ( October 24 – November 19, 1917), also known as the , remains the most devastating military defeat in Italian history . Fought in the Julian Alps near present-day Kobarid, Slovenia, it saw Austro-German forces shatter the Italian front and drive them back 60 miles to the River Piave. The Strategic Breakthrough

By late 1917, eleven bloody but indecisive battles on the Isonzo River had exhausted both sides. Fearing an Austro-Hungarian collapse, Germany sent six elite divisions to launch a counter-offensive. Caporetto, Battle of