Italy enters the war
May 23, 1915
After months of secret negotiation, Italy joined the Entente with the Treaty of London, lured by promised Austrian territory. Italian troops launched an offensive along the Isonzo River and spent three and a half years fighting in mountain snows for almost no ground. Six hundred thousand Italians died for lands that later disappointed them.
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