Presentation of the book "Postcards from the Front" in Cesuna - 9 August 2019

Alusini Dr. Stefano presents the book "Postcards from the Front" in the library in Cesuna of Roana

On Friday, July 9, 2019, the presentation of the book "Postcards fromthe Front" will be held at the Municipal Library "Mario Rigoni Stern" in Cesuna, Roana.

It is a work curated and carried out by some members of theCultural Historical Association South Plateau Front 7 Municipalities, thanks to the collaboration of UNUCI Sez.Brescia, Memoriaestoria, Historical Archive Dal Molin and Inoxeart.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:45p.m. The authors themselves will present the book.

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POSTCARDS FROM THE FRONT

During the Great War, thanks to billions of letters and postcards, the soldiers and their families tried to hold their loved ones in that blizzard that would turn their lives upside down for four years.

Small pieces of paper often entrusted to an uncertain fate, written in physically and psychologically difficult circumstances, if not even extreme.

An incalculable universe of feelings destroyed by the fury of events, held only by that thin but dense web of words, increasingly agitated by the wind of war.

In the immense mechanism of death of which the soldiers were only microscopic gears, their postcards ended up inevitably summarizing the capillary effects of propaganda with an irrepressible desire for peace, sometimes hidden in the last thoughtful reassurance sent to the family before disappearing forever.