Chapter 45

Enemy Offensive Opens on Front of Ninety-Seven Miles--Repulse of the Austrians--Italy Turns the Tables--Terrific Counter-Thrusts from the Piave to Trente--Forcing the Alpine Passages--Battles High in the Air--English, French and Americans Back up the Italians in Humbling the Might of Austria--D'Annunzio's Romantic Bombardment of Vienna--Diaz Leads his Men to Victory