Enter Mussolini (RLE Responding to Fascism)

Emilio Lussu was an Italian MP and Professor of Political Economy, who was imprisoned because of his opposition to Mussolini. In 1929 he escaped with two fellow prisoners from the island of Lipari. Enter Mussolini combines an account of Mussolini’s rise to power and a critique of the Italian fascist movement that was influential at a time when many observers were still sympathetic to fascism, at least in its Italian guise. It was first published in English in 1936.

Enter Mussolini (RLE Responding to Fascism): Observations and Adventures of an Anti-Fascist

Lussu, Emilio

Reference

Routledge

A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals, in spare and detached prose, the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy, the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu's memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.

A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War 1

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Rizzoli Ex Libris

Some of the fiercest fighting of World War I took place in the Alps between the Italian army and the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Half a million Italians died or were wounded, yet this is the only autobiographical novel of note to emerge. Written with classic simplicity, it tells of the daily life of soldiers at the front: of many noble characters, like the narrator, the last officer surviving from the beginning of war; of some mad ones, like General Leone who marched along the trenches all night, shouting "Stay awake! Your General does not sleep!" and the endless taking and losing of trenches, the deaths of comrades and the snatched days of love. Written in 1939, this is a forgotten masterpiece from a forgotten front.

Sardinian Brigade (Lost Treasures)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Prion Books

Marsch auf Rom und Umgebung: Ein Bericht

History

World

Folio Verlagsges. Mbh

Considered a masterpiece of military literature, this work recalls the experiences of Emilio Lussu in the Asiago Plateau from June 1916 to July 1917, when, as a member of the Sassari Brigade, he fought in the Italo-Austrian front during World War I. This emotional story recounts a year of continuous assaults, absurd battles, and impregnable trenchestragic episodes both grotesque and comical through which war is revealed in its truest form. This narrative’s simple prose describes the humor and daily lives of the farmers, soldiers, and workers and provides a different glimpse of the battles and armies. Considerada una obra maestra de la literatura militar, este libro recuerda las experiencias de Emilio Lussu en la meseta de Asiago desde junio 1916 hasta julio 1917, cuando, como miembro de la Brigada Sassari, luchó en el frente italo-austríaco durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Esta conmovedora historia narra un año de continuos ataques, batallas absurdas y trincheras inexpugnablestrágicos episodios grotescos y además cómicos a través de los cuales la guerra se revela en su forma más verdadera. La prosa sencilla de esta narración describe el humor y la vida diaria de los campesinos, soldados y trabajadores y ofrece una visión diferente de las batallas y los ejércitos.

Un año en el altiplano (Spanish Edition)

Historical

Libros del Asteroide

La catena (Storie della storia d'Italia) (Italian Edition)

Classics

Baldini Castoldi

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