Mussolini's death march : eyewitness accounts of Italian soldiers on the Eastern Front / Nuto Revelli ; translated with an introduction by John Penuel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Revelli, Nuto, author.

Series:

Modern war studies

Standardized Title:

Strada del davai. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italy. Regio Esercito. Alpini.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Italian.

Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.

Soviet Union.

History.

Revelli, Nuto.

Italy. Regio Esercito. Alpini--Biography.

Italy.

Soldiers--Italy--Biography.

Soldiers.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- Italian.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 540 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]

Contents:

Part 1 If I Have a Third Daughter, I'll Name Her Vera 15

It'll Be War and Not Much Else 22

Be Strong, Hold Out, You Have a Family 27

Fascists Worse than Bedbugs 39

If You're a Capitalist, Go Back to Italy 52

Get Out of Here before It Gets Cold 64

Mussolini, Empire, Just War 88

I Don't Want to Go Back to Italy 98

Courage, If We Get Through, We'll Make It Home 106

I Love the Country More Than Before 112

A Little Tube of Shaving Cream 125

Around the World like a Bunch of Marmots 166

The Russians Are Fair People 172

We'll Win and It Will All Be Over 179

Anyone from Valgrana? 194

In Russia We Go Numb 203

We'll Die like Rats 207

It's a Single Cry: "Help, Help, Mamma, Mamma" 219

The Timid Are Bound to Die 226

Surrender, Italians, You're Already Prisoners 239

For Lots of People, War Means Making Money 262

Every Sunset Means One Day Less 269

Not Fascists: Alpinist! 280

Alpini, You'll All Make It Back 295

Try It Again, and I'll Smack You Upside the Head, Too 300

I Know Where Russia Is, and That's It 315

How Many Fountains I Dreamed of in Russia 321

You Laugh Once When You Go to War 339

The War Is Over 351

Part 2 A Never-Ending Job 365

Those Who Flee Make It 370

We Are All Generals 373

We'll Go Where They Take Us 380

It Won't Be Long Now 383

Whoever Is Singing Is Drunk 393

Let Mussolini Burn Alive 397

I'll Never Go to Italy to Kill Italians 406

Finally, an Order: Every Man for Himself 414

Come to Japan with Us 421

Come on, We Have to Make It to Turin 433

The Heroic Sacrifice of the Cuneense 445

Homo Homini Lupus 462.

Notes:

Original title: La strada del davai

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-521) and index.

ISBN:

9780700619085

0700619089

OCLC:

818143724