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Mussolini's death march : eyewitness accounts of Italian soldiers on the Eastern Front / Benvenuto Revelli ; translated by John Penuel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Revelli, Nuto, author.
- Series:
- Modern War Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- Soldiers--Italy--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Soviet Union.
- Revelli, Nuto.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource. 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
- Summary:
- Vivid eyewitness accounts from 43 survivors from the Italian army's short-lived and disastrous campaign on the Eastern Front. Recaptures--in the words and sober reflections of the men who fought there--the harrowing experience of this lunatic mission in which the Italians suffered roughly 75,000 dead.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Nuto Revelli's Wars by John Penuel
- Note on the Translation
- Maps
- Preface
- Part One
- If I Have a Third Daughter, I'll Name Her Vera
- It'll Be War and Not Much Else
- Be Strong, Hold Out, You Have a Family
- Fascists Worse than Bedbugs
- If You're a Capitalist, Go Back to Italy
- Get Out of Here before It Gets Cold
- Mussolini, Empire, Just War
- I Don't Want to Go Back to Italy
- Courage, If We Get Through, We'll Make It Home
- I Love the Country More Than Before
- A Little Tube of Shaving Cream
- Around the World like a Bunch of Marmots
- The Russians Are Fair People
- We'll Win and It Will All Be Over
- Anyone from Valgrana?
- In Russia We Go Numb
- We'll Die like Rats
- It's a Single Cry: "Help, Help, Mamma, Mamma"
- The Timid Are Bound to Die
- Surrender, Italians, You're Already Prisoners
- For Lots of People, War Means Making Money
- Every Sunset Means One Day Less
- Not Fascists: Alpinist!
- Alpini, You'll All Make It Back
- Try It Again, and I'll Smack You Upside the Head, Too
- I Know Where Russia Is, and That's It
- How Many Fountains I Dreamed of in Russia
- You Laugh Once When You Go to War
- The War Is Over
- Part Two
- A Never-Ending Job
- Those Who Flee Make It
- We Are All Generals
- We'll Go Where They Take Us
- It Won't Be Long Now
- Whoever Is Singing Is Drunk
- Let Mussolini Burn Alive
- I'll Never Go to Italy to Kill Italians
- Finally, an Order: Every Man for Himself
- Come to Japan with Us
- Come on, We Have to Make It to Turin
- The Heroic Sacri ce of the Cuneense
- Homo Homini Lupus
- Afterword: The Retreat from Russia
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-521) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7006-2884-3
- OCLC:
- 1148887729
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