672. The First World War: Italy’s Doomed Campaign (Part 2)
Italy's entry into World War I in 1915, driven by nationalist ambition and elite manipulation rather than public will, led to a brutal and futile campaign on the Isonzo Front against Austria-Hungary, resulting in over a million casualties and a national trauma that fueled the rise of fasc
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