The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918 Barasch Isaak
The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918 Barasch Isaak The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First…
Specifikacia The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918 Barasch Isaak
The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918 Barasch Isaak
The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself. He is often angry with the army and the war, but never expresses jingoistic hatred of the enemy. Few personal accounts of service on the Italian front have been published in English and diaries from the Habsburg side are rarer still, so his writing is exceptional.He doesn't record military actions and maneuvers in detail, but concentrates on his own reflections and feelings as he coped with the sick and wounded on the front line.
When reproached for being too sensitive and insufficiently hardened, he noted that his biggest worry was how to remain untouched - His indignation is directed at superiors, at commanders and politicians who know nothing of the terror of the fighting.
The Great War 1914-1918