Contents: 1915 - 1918: la montagna "forte". Il caso del Monte Castellazzo (TN) (Marco Balbi); Barbed Wire during the Great War: Origins, Tactical Theories, Diffusion and Impact on the Representation of Conflict (Francois-Xavier Bernard); Architettura e Geografia del territorio in conflitto: le linee difensive in Europa nella Grande Guerra (Maria Antonietta Breda); Opere di mina: la galleria di demolizione di Brienno (Como) (Maria Antonietta Breda, Sara Fumagalli, Gianluca Padovan); Strade e opere difensive militari dell'Alto Garda Bresciano: un patrimonio da conoscere e salvaguardare (Alberta Cazzani, Camillo Sangiorgio); L'opera difensiva permanente ai Masi di Claemp (Trento - Italia) (Massimo Chianello); Il raggio di divieto di fabbrica. Basi legislative ed effetti sul territorio nell'ambito del sistema fortificato Austro-Ungarico del Tirolo Meridionale (Nicola Fontana); Lo sbarramento Brenta-Cismon 1866-1918: una fortezza a cavallo tra risorgimento e modernita (Luca Girotto); Territorio e fortificazioni: la loro valorizzazione. Il patrimonio monumentale militare moderno nella realta lombarda di oggi (Fosco M. Magaraggia); Gli impianti a fune e gli eventi bellici: dal Piave alla montagna (Alessandro Martinelli); Cattaro - Austro-Hungarian war harbour and fortress (Volker Konstantin Pachauer); La fortificazione "alla moderna" da Averulino detto "il Filarete" alle teorizzazioni di Karl von Clausewitz (Ginluca Padovan); The memory of the Great War on the Asiago plateau: the Fort Corbin (Ilaria Panozzo); Esercito e Territorio: l'accasermamento come fenomeno di trasformazione della citta e del territorio negli esempi di Cremona, del Quadrilatero nello specifico di Mantova, Verona, Peschiera, Legnago, e di Pizzighettone tra Ottocento e Novecento (Luciano Roncai); New Dutch Water Line: implementation leads to new questions (Peter Ros); The pre-war period of the Austrian fortification in Trentino - Construction, technology and armament (Willibald Rosner);The secret landscape: the defence system and great cave works of the Lombard stretch of the Northern Frontier (Antonio Trotti); La linea d'arresto e gli approntamenti fortificati sui crinali del Parco Alto Garda Bresciano (Luca Zavanella)

This book, in Italian and English, collects the papers presented at the Second International Congress on Conoscenza e valorizzazione delle opere militari moderne - Knowledge and development of modern military structures, held at the Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, on 27 and 28 November 2012. The Congress was devoted to two types of military structures made between 1919 and 1939 in Italy and in some European countries: Theatres of war and Air-raid shelters in urban areas. Papers illustrate the structural characteristics and recent experiences of reuse and exploitation, even by cultural Association. It is an important contribution to the development and dissemination of studies on European defensive systems and on air defense of the city between 1919 and 1939, a period still poorly understood with regard to the military architecture and the protection of civilians and cities by air raids. The book gathers updated data and documents in many cases unpublished.

The study and registration of artificial cavities means the documentation of underground structures. Just as Man started creating buildings on the surface of the Earth, over the course of time, he also perforated the surface thus creating new spaces and handing down structures which are essentially intact, which can be studied, restored and even utilised. In fact there exists an underground heritage, consisting of structures both built and buried underground over the passing of time. The interpretation and understanding of such structures is a source of interesting information on our past, in favour of the present. This series was created under the aegis of the Federazione Nazionale Cavita Artificiali (F.N.C.A.). The aim is to create a base for the disclosure of relevant, scientific research studies, whether monographs, the works of various authors or documentation from conferences and conventions and a series of easily consultable tools for the development of artificial cavity research."