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A famous WW1 memoir gives a first-person account of an Italian suicidal charge over no man's land, so senseless that it caused the distraught Austrians to stop shooting from their trenches and cry out in Italian "Enough! Don't let yourselves be slaughtered like that." Did this actually happen?

by /u/fan_of_the_pikachu in /r/AskHistorians

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