For four years, the Great War, "the war to end war", raged across the world. Statesmen and Generals, far removed from the bloodshed, sent millions of faceless soldiers to their deaths in battles characterized by pointlessness and futility. The Italian Front stretched along the borders separating Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the main battles waged in mountain regions claimed by Italy, part of the Allied Powers, from Austria, one of the Central Powers. They confronted each other in a conflict strategically similar to trench warfare, but played out in the treacherous heights of the Trentino, Dolomite, and Caporetto mountain ranges. In the last months of 1916, Peitro Aquasanta, a Private in the Italian Bersaglieri, returns to his childhood home of the Trentino mountain range to find it is no longer the realm of adventure of his youth, but has become a place of death and despair, where the elements are as great a threat as that of the enemy. Amongst the soldiers of both armies, no weapon of war is more feared than the White Death, thundering avalanches deliberately caused by cannonfire which, like the war itself, consume everything in their path...
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