On 24 May 1915 Italy joined the war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The battlefront ended up being extensive and characterised by various kinds of environment through the Isonzo river banks to the peaks of Dolomiti in Alps. A lot of times the Italian infantry had to fight in very severe and prohibitive conditions. Inside very early years of the war there were no significant alterations in the leading despite the many offensives determined by the Italian commander in chief General Luigi Cadorna regarding the Carso front. Following the beat of Caporetto in October 1917, a renewed Italian army led by General Armando Diaz, stopped the Austrian-Hungarian offensive regarding the Piave river and began a vigorous counter-offensive that resulted in the decisive Italian success, through the battle of Vittorio Veneto, in October 1918.
