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Extract from the Kobarid Travel Guides:
It was at the little alpine town of
KOBARID
(Caporetto in Italian) that German and Austrian troops finally broke through Italian lines in 1917, almost knocking Italy out of the war in the process. Ernest Hemingway, then a volunteer ambulance driver on the Italian side, took part in the chaotic retreat that followed - an experience which resurfaced in his novel
A Farewell to Arms
. A processional way leads up from Kobarid's main square to a monumental, three-tiered
Italian War Memorial
(Italijanska Kostnica) officially opened by Benito Mussolini in 1938, and a fitting place from which to enjoy views...
read the whole Kobarid Travel Guides...
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