Jack of Harts

Italy had been unhappy with Austria-Hungary since the end of the Napoleonic Wars, their aspirations to acquire Italian-inhabited territory across the border.  They declared their alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary defensive in nature, and sat back as war began.  Then they negotiated with England and attacked Austria-Hungary in a righteous nationalistic fervor.  Trenches soon ruled the unmoving Italian Front, and three million people paid the price of war.