This is precisely why I wrote Thunder in The Mountains, and I couldn’t be happier.
This summer, I will mostly going full Frohntal 😳 Will be taking a closer look at the Peralba and Chiadenis WW1 battlefield.
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
Whoever gets the ghost-writing gig for Dawa’s story is going to be minted.
The Ortler sector…arguably the most unusual battlefield of WW1:
Ice tunnels ✅
Cable cars ✅
6-inch howitzers ✅
Searchlights ✅
Blizzards ✅
Avalanches ✅
Crevasses ✅
Lightning strikes ✅
30% less oxygen ✅
It’s the anniversary of the Battle of the Solstice, so here’s my controversial take: the Italian Renaissance (wrt their post-Caporetto recovery) is a myth. The weather saved them in June 1918 (but 48,000 surrendered), and the British saved them in October 1918 (when Diaz failed to cross the Piave).
Sixth Day is a gruelling misery-fest about the Great Retreat of 1915 by one of Serbia’s leading avant-garde writers. It’s like a William S Burroughs and Solzhenitsyn mash-up. But I confess I missed the whole primordial mystery of the feminine thing.
The two sides were separated by 170m of vertiginous ridge line, with long drops either side.
Tom Isitt
Am delighted with this review of TiTM…it’s very gratifying for an author to know that the fruits of one’s labours are appreciated.
During WW1 in Italy, artists were recruited to make sketches of mountains on the Italian Front, often because existing maps were often a bit rubbish. Unfortunately the annotations aren’t always accurate. FTFY.
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
Tom Isitt
BOOK REVIEW! Close to the end as I am of this cracking book, I figure it’s time for a review!
I’ll start with a quote from my guide in the Dolomites from 2023. ‘To understand these mountains, you must chain yourself to them and bleed’… and holy cow has @tomisitt.bsky.social done that in spades 1/
