2-710-976 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'War Among The Eternal Snows', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'An Italian fort of the snow-capped peaks of Mount Adamello [in Lombardy, Italy - the second highest peak of the Adamello-Presanella Alps]. The stupendous difficuties that had to be overcome by the Italian Army were but little understood in Britain. Infantry and artillery were firmly entrenched on mountain fastnesses formerly known only to the intrepid alpinist.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VI, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]