The Mountain War: A Doctor's Diary of the Italian Campaign 1914-1918

The diary Dr Isaak Barasch kept while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Italian front during the First World War gives the reader a remarkable insight into the conflict and into the man himself. Few personal accounts of service on the Italian front have been published in English and diaries from the Habsburg side are rarer still, so his writing is exceptional.

He doesn’t record military actions and maneuvers in detail, but concentrates on his own reflections and feelings as he cope...