Although celebrated by Hemingway in "A Farewell to Arms", the Italian front in the World War I has been relatively neglected in literature. And yet some of the fiercest fighting of the war took place in the Alps between the Italian army and the forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Over 500,000 Italians were killed or wounded in the war. ...
Readers seeking to understand the resurgence of fascism in the world today should profit from Emilio Lussu's account. This is an autobiography through which the reader encounters men and women caught up in the brutalizing of a State whose opponents suffer the consequences of holding to principle. In Sardinia in the 1920's a bourgeois class fell ...
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Edward A. Weeks, Editor; Catherine Drinker Bowen, A.A. Milne, Alexander Woollcott, Emilio Lussu, Edith Heal, Walter Brooks,...
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Edition: First printing
Binding: Original Wraps
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly,
Date Published: 1939.
Description: Very Good. A single original issue including covers and advertisements. Quarto, 9 3/4" tall, pages 591 to 734 + ads, stiff orange-red covers. A very good, clean, neat soft cover magazine with minor shelf wear (back cover scuffed) and paper along the backstip rubbed; interior fine, binding tight, paper cream white. read more
Description: Description: xiii, 237, [1] p., 1 l. 19 cm. Subjects: Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945). Fascism--Italy. Near fine in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. 1. pp. 237. read more
Description: Description: xiii, 237, [1] p., 1 l. 19 cm. Subjects: Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945). Fascism--Italy. Near fine in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. read more
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