Wednesday 17/8/2016 at 20:45
Books
"Memoirs of a Second World War Alpin de la" by Erik Pretto
Wednesday 17 August 2016 at 20.45 at the Council Chamber of Gallio, the plateau of Asiago, has scheduled a meeting to present the book "the history of Joanìn without fear. The second World War Memoirs de un Alpin de".
As you can guess from the title of the book, it is a historical evening, devoted to reading the memoirs of an alpino who fought the Second World War.
Speaker of the evening will be the same author, Erik Umberto Pretto.
THE PLOT OF "THE STORY OF PREM SENA FEAR"
The novel begins with episodes relating to the life of the boy protagonist, set in the countryside.
It therefore addresses the experience of war. At the age of 19 years, Christmas Turcato is called to arms for Alpine Artillery Group "Val Isonzo" stationed in Gorizia, part of "Julia" Division. After a brief military training, Christmas will be sent to the Greek-Albanian front, created with the beginning of the Italian campaign of Greece. It will be then transferred to Montenegro, to thwart the uprisings by the partisans of Titus Italian-German occupation of Yugoslavia adverse.
Back in Greece, more specifically in the region of Epirus, will fall prisoner of the Germans after the Armistice of September 8, 1943. Deported then in Germany for refusing to join the troops of the fledgling Italian Social Republic, will be interned in Nazi Lager of Wartenberg, near Berlin. Particularly in this part of the book hits the drama of events; However, the extraordinary Christmas personality emerges, which proves every time unable to hate and obstinate in trying to see the positive side of things.
Ended the Second World War, with the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich, Christmas will be taken over by Soviet troops, who hold her for four months in a German town next to the new Polish border.
Foiled the danger of deportation to Siberia, will finally repatriated in September 1945.
The whole thing ends with the return of the hero to his native, more precisely with his marriage and with its consequent passage to a new life.
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