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The Trentino Offensive From March onwards the Italians under Cadorna were in trouble. The Austrians launched their Trentino offensive on 15th May 1916, and made a break through taking Arsiero and taking 400,000 Italians prisoner; their commander, Conrad, planned to drive on as far as Venice and outflank the Italian army positioned on the Isonzo, which would force the Italians to withdraw and also force Italy out of the war. However, the Austrian advance ran out of momentum as their forward units outran supply. The Italians appealed for aid nonetheless, and the Russians responded with the Brusilov offensive.

Contents of Military History of the First World War 1 The Central Powers and the Entente 2 The run-up to the war: The July Crisis, 1914 3 Military Planning in Advance of the War 4 Serbia and the Eastern Front, 1914 5 The Battle for the Marne 6 The Race to the Sea and the First Battle of Ypres 7 First Battle of Ypres 8 The Pacific 9 Africa 10 The Eastern Front during 1915 11 Italy enters the war 12 The Balkans 13 The Western Front 14 Gallipoli 15 The Western Front, 1916 16 Verdun 17 The Battle of the Somme 18 The Trentino Offensive 19 The Brusilov Offensive 20 Romania 21 The Russian Front in 1917 22 Mesopotamia 23 The Nivelle Offensive 24 The Third Battle of Ypres (The Battle of Passendaele) 25 Cambrai 26 Caporetto 27 German offensive in Russia, 1918 28 Ludendorff's offensive in the West 29 Allied counter-offensive

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