Qualla: Battles of the Isonzo https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/2/1/t/battles-of-the-isonzo-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battles of the Isonzo https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo Battles of the Isonzo: Introduction https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Žiga assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The Italian army attacked across the Isonzo River twelve times in twenty-nine months. Twelve times, roughly the same thing happened: men advanced into a landscape of exposed limestone, river crossings under fire, and fortified mountain positions held by Austro-Hungarian defenders who had dug in before the war even began. Half of all Italian soldiers killed in World War I, some 300,000 of 600,000, died along this single river in what is now the border region between Italy and Slovenia. The Austro-Hungarians lost around 200,000 of their own. That the battles were always numbered rather than given distinct names became, in itself, a kind of verdict: the same fight, repeated, with the same results.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/2/1/t/battles-of-the-isonzo-wp/u21t-battles-of-the-isonzo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battles of the Isonzo: A River That Ran Through Empire https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Isonzo, known as the Soca in Slovenian, runs 138 kilometers from the Vrsic Pass in the Julian Alps to the Adriatic Sea. In 1915, the entire river lay within Austria-Hungary, parallel to the Italian border. North of Gorizia, the river widened and the valley opened into a narro...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/2/1/t/battles-of-the-isonzo-wp/u21t-battles-of-the-isonzo-a-river-that-ran-through-empire.mp3 0:06 2 full Battles of the Isonzo: The Dilemma of the Mountains https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo/ Photo credit Rudolf Alfred Höger, Public domain. Along the 400-mile length of the Italian Front, the Isonzo sector was the only practical area for offensive operations. Everywhere else, the mountains were dominated by Austro-Hungarian positions fortified before Italy entered the war on May 23, 1915. But even here, the geography...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/2/1/t/battles-of-the-isonzo-wp/u21t-battles-of-the-isonzo-the-dilemma-of-the-mountains.mp3 0:06 3 full Battles of the Isonzo: The Sixth Battle and the Fall at Caporetto https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo/ Photo credit Johan Sandin, CC BY 2.5. The Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, fought in August 1916, finally delivered Gorizia to the Italians and earned distinction as the Battle of Gorizia, one of the few Isonzo engagements given its own name. But the city's capture did not break the front. Five more battles followed throu...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/2/1/t/battles-of-the-isonzo-wp/u21t-battles-of-the-isonzo-the-sixth-battle-and-the-fall-at-caporetto.mp3 0:06 4 full Battles of the Isonzo: What the River Carries https://qualla.com/battles-of-the-isonzo/ Photo credit Rudolf Alfred Höger, Public domain. More than 30,000 of the dead were ethnic Slovenes, citizens of Austria-Hungary who served in the Austro-Hungarian Army and found themselves fighting on their own land. Slovenian civilians from the Gorizia and Gradisca region suffered in additional thousands, forcibly resettled in...

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