Mario Rigoni Stern was barely twenty-one -- and already a battle
veteran -- at the time of the hallucinating World War II disaster
searchingly described in this book. In July 1942, the Italian
forces in Russia totaled 230,000 men. They included three divisions
of Alpini troops, specially trained for winter warfare; the author
of this book belonged to one of these, the Tridentina. In December,
the troops began retreating, entirely on foot, with no supplies, at
a temperature of 30-40 degrees below zero. Many of the troops,
overcome by exhaustion, broke away from the column, others were cut
off and captured by the Russians, and others got lost in the
steppes. In the end, about 90,000 were missing or dead; about
45,000 frostbitten and wounded.
This narrative, together with his novel The Story of Tonle and
several other works, paints a broad fresco of Italy's history in
this century, chronicling social and political change so radical
and profound that it has touched even those in such secluded
provincial communities as those Rigoni Stern has so masterfully
described.
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