Author : Francesco Nicolini
Publisher : Edizioni Il Fiorino Modena
ISBN 13 : 8875496765
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (754 download)
Book Synopsis FORT VERENA, May 24, 1915, 04:00 Trilogy of the Great War by : Francesco Nicolini
Download or read book FORT VERENA, May 24, 1915, 04:00 Trilogy of the Great War written by Francesco Nicolini and published by Edizioni Il Fiorino Modena. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These memories, handwritten by Elmo Cermaria (Nonno Peppe) for his grandson Checco (Francesco Nicolini), tell of when, as a young man of 20, he found himself hurled into the inferno of the First World War. In those days, you could cry your heart out for a bread roll denied, then miraculously regained thanks to the compassion of a German soldier, “the hated enemy”. These recollections are terse, without a trace of rhetoric and devoid of recriminations. Nonno Peppe tells the facts just as he experienced them first hand, without expressing any condemnation of those responsible for them, even though an awareness of the large-scale massacre he witnessed transpires from his account. When Nonno Peppe delivered the manuscript to his grandson on his wedding day, he asked him to make a promise: “Let the President of the Republic know what we did for Italy.” A hundred years ago, whole generations of young Italian men were stripped of human honor and dignity. Only a few of these young men would live on and become our grandfathers; and only a few of us would be fortunate enough to become “grandchildren of the Great War” and bear witness to their ordeal.