Description

Title: Asiago

Author: Mackay, Francis

Condition: Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2000

ISBN: 9780850527599

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 176 pages

Comments: The Battleground series is designed for both the battlefield visitor and the reader at home. For the former, this book is an invaluable guide and each site is described in detail. For everyone there are graphic descriptions of action, often through first-hand accounts, supported by illustrations, diagrams and maps.

A battlefield guide to the scene of an Austro-Hungarian attack on the British Corps sector of the Allied front line on the Asiago Plateau, forty miles north of Venice in Northern Italy, on 15/16 June 1918. This comprehensive and attractive guidebook describes the terrain, the forces involved and the fighting, including the action leading to the award of two Victoria Crosses.