The First World War: Italy’s Doomed Campaign (Part 2)

Holland and Sandbrook tackle Italy's disastrous Isonzo campaigns — the bloodiest and most futile offensive operations on any front in WWI, and still underserved in English-language podcasting. Over 70 minutes, they cover Italy's entry into the war, the impossible terrain of the Julian Alps, and the grinding attritional logic that consumed hundreds of thousands of men for negligible gains. This is the kind of episode Rest Is History does well: two generalists who can make an under-told campaign vivid and accessible.