On the morning of the 28th of June 1914, two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street plunged the world into war.
Four years later battles raged across the globe with some of the hardest fighting in the mountains between Italy and Austria. Lieutenant Roger Walton was sent to Italy as a liaison officer because someone in authority wanted to keep him away from the deadly trenches in France. They could have no idea that he was being sent to a far more lethal theatre of war.
Introduction
As a tribute to those who served during the years 1914-1918 - on the Home Front or at the Front Line - Commando has produced a series of stories of characters caught up in the tumult of the First World War. None of them are real people but we'd like to think that their experiences will not be a million miles from what actually happened to so many across the globe.
Last time, we saw how the tank changed the face of the battlefield forever. This time we are in Italy where the terrain so dominated warfare that armies fought as they had since time immemorial - face-to-face.
I hope you enjoy this and the other stories in the series as much as we have.
Calum Laird, Commando Editor
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