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SIX MONTHS
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
FROM THE ARCTIC OCEAN TO THE YELLOW SEA
THE LAND OF GOLD
FROM EUSTON TO KLONDIKE
DAME FASHION
MY BOHEMIAN DAYS IN PARIS
MY BOHEMIAN DAYS IN LONDON
From a snapshot by Robert Vaucher.
Correspondent of the Paris L’Illustration.
SIX MONTHS ON
THE ITALIAN FRONT
From the Stelvio to the Adriatic
1915-1916
By
Julius M. Price
War-Artist Correspondent of the
“Illustrated London News”
NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE
1917
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
THE WESTMINSTER PRESS
411A HARROW ROAD
LONDON W
To the Italian Military Authorities
in recognition of the courtesy and many kindnesses
extended to me during my six months’ work with the
glorious Army of Italy.
NOTE
I am indebted to the Directors of the IllustratedLondon News for their kind permission to reproducein this book the sketches and drawings I made forthem whilst on the Italian Front, a great many ofwhich have already been published.
PREFACE
As the reader will discover for himself, I haveno pretensions to pose as a Military Expert.This book is the result of a few hasty impressionsgathered over a period which, with all itsminor inconveniences and little daily worries, Ilook back upon as among the happiest and bestfilled of a somewhat varied career. I have notyielded to the temptation to be interesting at theexpense of veracity; to that fact the indulgentreader will, I trust, attribute many of the dullpages. If in the latter half of the book I have laidparticular stress on the operations leading up toand cu