memoir

Recollections of a Prisoner of War [1930, British POW in Germany)

Lord Phillimore, 1930

Named on the page for Second Battle of the Piave River.

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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.

15–23 June 1918

Second Battle of the Piave River

SHORT COMMONS
One day he came to us jubilant with the news of the Austrian advance on the Piave.

THE TIDE TURNS
attack on the Piave. It was immediately successful, and within twenty-four hours of its start deserters from that front were back in the villages around Salzerbad.

AND REACH ORDER
It was intensely interesting to people like us, who were by then years behindhand in regard to the newest appliances of war, to hear and see all the latest developments; and, of course, to hear about the Piave battle and many matters regarding the Italian Front, which have never, even now, been generally made known.

Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.