How to Submit Your Own Book Review of Gaetano V. Cavallaro's World War One History Books | WWI: The Best of the Great War| The Beginning of Futility (Diplomatic, Political, Military and Naval Events on the Austro-Italian Front in the First World War 1914-1917 Volume I - ISBN: 978-1-4010-8426-4); Futility Ending in Disaster (Diplomatic, Military, Aviation and Social Events in The First World War, Volume II - ISBN: 978-1-4134-5742-1); Disaster Ending In Final Victory (THE DISSOLUTION OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE Volume III - ISBN: 978-1-4134-6801-4; Military Europe Italy Modern 20th Century non-fiction, text books. hardback, paperback, eBook

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"Has to be read along with the first two volumes...
Gives you a total picture of Italy and the Great War (1914 - 1918)
and will explain how and why Italy fell so far in WW-2"

5 stars GREAT BOOK OF 3, May 1, 2010
By Joel M. Norman "BROOKLYN READER" (WELDON SPRINGS MO.)
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This review is from: Disaster Ending In Final Victory (Paperback)

"The author's ability to maintain his sense of the three armies
(Anglo-French, Austrian, and German), their weapons,
tactics and personnel, is maintained at every level; many maps,
many photos of the mountains and military installations as well as of
the officers, is remarkable, and massively supported by pages of
end-notes per chapter, including bibliographic references.

"Chapter XVI (Vol. II) all by itself is a marvel, deserving space on
the shelf of aviation-focused books."

– Leo Opdycke, Editor, WWI Aero, 1961-2007
Founder and Editor of WW1 AERO -
The Journal Of The Early Aeroplane for 46 years
before leaving in September of 2007

"In all, these three volumes comprise the most complete and well-documented
description and analysis of the First World War on the Italian front ever
published in English. Drawing on archives in Rome, Vienna, Freiburg and London,
the author has created a marvelously detailed look at an important, but often
neglected, aspect of The Great War."

– Len Shurtleff, Former U.S. Ambassador
Leonard Shurtleff is a member of The Great War Society and Past President of the Western Front Association.
Until he retired from the US. Foreign Service in 1995, he specialized in African affairs.

"The story of how these three magnificent volumes grew out of your listening as a child to the stories
of veterans who after the war ended up here in the United States made a strong
impression on me. Little could those old men have known that their spoken words
would result in such a rich and broad history of the whole event so many decades later!"

– John Ahern, Ph.D., Vassar College Professor

"I have greatly enjoyed your trilogy; Vol.2 is indispensable for understanding Caporetto and its immediate aftermath.
I was particularly impressed with your analysis of Matajur's capture."

– Dennis Showalter, Ph.D., Professor of History, Colorado College
Author of cover story "The Making of Rommel"
in March 2011 issue of Military History Magazine
which references Dr. Gaetano V. Cavallaro's trilogy

"I just finished the second volume of your collection and I want to thank you for the effort you made in collecting such an enormous amount of information. I’m a pharmacist working at the United States Pharmacopeia in the US. As you, I grew up listening to my grandfather’s stories from his experience during WWI. My grandfather was one of those “fanti” from Calabria you describe in your book. For the last several years I’ve been trying to recreate his path during the war with little information in my hands. I only have his release from the army certificate. It indicates there that he belonged to the 14° Bersaglieri from 12/30/1916 to the end of the war. In your book, you established the position of this regiment in a triangle from Roncalto Perk to the Sisemol summit to Bertigo. He was probably involved in the Austro-Hungarian assault on December 6th. He was wounded and transported to a hospital as a prisoner of war and then to a concentration camp until the end of the war. This is the first time that I have found a lead to guide my search. I would like to obtain more specific details regarding these actions and my grandfather’s specific location however I don’t know where to go from here. I wrote a letter to the Archivo di Stato di Catanzaro, where he was enrolled, however they told me to contact the Distreto Militare di Catanzaro (I did but with no success) I would also like to know if it is possible to obtain information regarding his itinerary as a prisoner (hospital, concentration camp, etc). In your experience, has this been possible? Any information or guidance you can provide me will be highly appreciated. I’ m planning to visit the area in April this year and It would be very nice to walk his steps."

– Horacio N. Pappa, CQE, Ph. D.
Principal Scientific Liaison
Documentary Standards Division

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