Nothing As Arduous As This
In 1917, in a newspaper called New York World, writer E. Alexander Powell talked about how hard it was for the soldiers who participated in the White War. “On no front, not on the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, nor in the frozen Mazurian marshes, nor in the blood-soaked mud of Flanders, does the fighting man lead so arduous an existence as up here on the roof of the world,” he said.
Nothing As Arduous As This
It Was Finally Coming To An End
In November 1918, the Italians launched an attack on the Tonale Pass forty miles away from Mount Scorluzzo. It was a success. The troops won over Austro-Hungary, and then the Allied nations in other parts of the world followed suit. Within two weeks, the First World War had finally come to a close.
It Was Finally Coming To An End