Austria-Hungary's Greatest Victory of WW1: Battle of Caporetto 1917 (Documentary)

Support us and get 40% off Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end?ref=the-great-war In October 1917, German and Austro-Hungarian troops went over the top into the rain and fog to attack the Italian trenches opposite them. They would go on to break the trench deadlock on the Italian Front, and nearly destroy the Italian army in just two weeks. The Battle of Caporetto was Austria-Hungary’s greatest victory of WW1 – and where a young Erwin Rommel learned to fight like a Desert Fox. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realtimehistory Nebula: https://nebula.tv/the-great-war » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Reed Spilmann, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Ceschin, Daniele. “La condizione delle donne profughe e dei bambini dopo Caporetto,” in DEP - Deportate, Esuli, Profughe, Rivista Telematica di studi sulla memoria femminile, no. 1, 2004. Ermacora, Matteo. “Assistance and Surveillance: War Refugees in Italy, 1914–1918.” In Contemporary European History 16, no. 4 (2007): 445–59. Grillini, Anna. Caporetto, Battle of. in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel et al. Freie Universität Berlin. Frizzera, Francessco. Refugees (Italy). in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel et al. Freie Universität Berlin. Hart, Peter. The Great War 1914-1918. Profile Book, 2013. Herwig, Holger. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918. Arnold, 1997. Kugy, Julius. La mia guerra nella Giulie. Mein Krieg in den Julischen. Moja viojna v Julijcih. Edizione Saisera, 2008. Rauchensteiner, Manfried. Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Habsburgermonarchie 1914–1918. Böhlau, 2013. Rommel, Erwin. Infantry attacks. Greenhill Books, 2023. Rothenberg, Gunther. The Army of Francis Joseph. Purdue UP, 1999 (1976). Silvestri, Mario. Isonzo 1917. RCS LIbri, 2001. Thompson, Mark. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919. Basic Books, 2010. Wilcox, Vanda. “The Catastrophe at Caporetto.” In History Today, 2017. » OUR SISTER CHANNEL https://youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander, Annabel Blakey Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2024