The book By Paolo Disrupted ORTIGARA Pozzato and Ruggero Dal Molin

The book By Paolo Disrupted ORTIGARA Pozzato and Ruggero Dal Molin with itineraries and photos of Mario Busana

• Title From disrupted ortigara
• Subtitle The Austrian Maginot plateau seven municipalities
• 416 Pages
• Cover price € 24,00
• Publishing House Itinera Projects
• Author (s) Paul Pozzato (author), Roger Dal Molin (author), Mario Busana (author and photos)
• Publication Date 2012
• ISBN 10 8888542461
• ISBN 13 978-8888542461
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Publish the diaries of departments that took sides byStopped to Ortigara
and the reflections of the Commander that you had to start and much of the running of the line in question, may not only have a valence of historical analysis.

All the more because the work funded by 78 law and intended to make Vicenza Prealps an open-air museum, unique in its kind, in a certain sense oblige even the most distracted visitor to wonder who made thiscollection of works or simply had to live and fight in the tunnels, in wells or in incavernate locations in which we come across almost every step.

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Nelle pages of "territorial" Austrians of the 3rd Schützen, worthy opponents of "Red Devils" of the "Sassari", such as those of the proud foot of 73° K.u.K. of Eger, Marcai and winners of Meata, or memories of Slovenes of 17°, the Regiment that had earned the honor of the dedication to the Crown Prince, retracing the disappointment at the failure to win 16 'the organizational difficulties and autumn war, unprecedented suffering perhaps the most terrible winter of the 20th century.

Some inevitable repetition, due to the combination of chronological crucial events – first and foremost the death of Franz Joseph – is richly rewarded by the amount and variety of impressions, from sudden vivid, even expressionistic in certain cases, of which memories are recorded.

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D toenrich the framework, in a sense, even to complete it, there are the reflections of the Jan. Rudolf Müller and short, as intense and – under the documentary profile – extraordinary diary of the 3rd company of the Feldjäger battalion 20°, the defenders of q. 2105 of Ortigara in the fateful day of June 10, 1917.

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Pubblicati on a magazine for officers of theSwiss Army, already observers on this front during the war and always interested for obvious reasons the mountain war, the memories of the future winner of Bovec let you relive the climate in which the Austrians, by Brigade and Division, faced the huge task, certainly, to set up a position of strength where it seemed to miss allespecially the water.

The logistical concerns raced with the tactical problem of containing the boost Italian counter-offensive in dotted the nightmares of those whose responsibility it was to retain the key of that Plateau, which was however cost quite a few sacrifices.

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Thel Shop diary – signed by s. Ten. Anton Pawlisryn – brings us to the days immediately preceding thebattle of Ortigara and reconstructs the first bloody phases of "assuming 1 defensive". In this case we deliberately pushed over the limit by date that we imposed on other body diaries and that was justified by the previous publication of Unpublished from Ortigara.

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Lto motivation is all in the extraordinary character of a testimony that represents one of the few "rumors" of an Austrian actor of those days, referred to in the first person and transcribed, beyond everything, drum, before the inevitable transformation and deformation work typical of each memory.

The precarious condition of logistics, decimated by dysentery and left for days without a hot meal, is followed by the preparation of fire of Italians, by turning their movement of q. 2101 (the Austrian 2071), since the first desperate defense of the 2nd company and desperate counter-attacks of the reserve battalion (half of 1st company). Lto resistance of the defenders of q. 2105, who did not fail to honour the value that immolarono degli alpini on their screens, so ideally the memory path started in the trenches of Monte and Bi.

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Curator's ambition is only to offer one more chance to the reader, preferably also called today's (led by 6 routes on battlefields are contained in the book), to relive through the testimonies of the drama of those who lived, fought and often died for loyalty to an empire already on the way. Escape from oblivion, which not infrequently their countries have condemned them, the incomparable today witnesses of peace is the task maybe impossible, certainly charming, who insists to deal with the history of the first world war.