The White War
Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915–1918
by Mark Thompson
- Publication
- First published 2009
- ISBNs
- 9780571223336, 9780465013296, 9780465013295
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This is the story of the First World War in Italy, a war that gave birth to fascism. Mussolini fought in these trenches, as did most of his collaborators. But so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian and German - Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil.
Prize history
- Orwell Prize for Political WritingShortlist
Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.
