Excerpt from Stead's Review of Reviews: June-July, 1915 Of these barely a million would be more or less trained. The glorious achievements of Garibaldi and the won derful doings of the men who finally threw off the Austrian yoke and created a free Italy - are fresh in the memories of all. Animated by the spirit of their fathers the Italian sol diers are certain to give a good account of themselves, and-we will have in our new ally the most convinced exponent of the doctrine that Germany must be beaten flat, for if any remnant of power is left her Italian future would be dark indeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.