The Red Horse
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0898707471 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1000 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | Italian |
DESCRIPTION:
A matter of duty A whole different perspective of how and why Italy entered the WWll. There expectations and their fate. The war camps and starvation by the Russians. Woven throughout the story is the underlining respect and friendship the Italian forces had for each other .. Pre-war Italy Kindle Customer A great novel and a marvelous love story. The preamble is enough to break your heart in witnessing the niave approach of the people of a small Italian town to the coming of WWII and its massive evil. Mussolini and his fascists are looked upon with bemusement and largely ignored at this time and it is only later that this essentially peaceful and loving people are pitched headlong into the cauldron of agony forged by their looney leader and the perverted mind of Hitler. Every home with Italian roots should have this book in a place of honor.. "Not one of my favorite books" according to Maryann Willis. I read a lot and sometimes it is difficult to rate books I have read as they are sometimes sending a message I don't like and therefore I condemn them and possibly others will feel differently.
In the end, it is a story of faith and hope in a world reduced to barbarism and cruelty.. Its success has gone way beyond Italy, having been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese and 3 other languages. A truly great historical novel with its epic scope, what makes this a masterpiece is the underlying spiritual dimensions of the protagonist, his family and friends, which illuminates the ongoing tragedy of the war and its aftermath. On a wider scale, it is a faithful witness to the actual events of the war—including the historic personages who appear, the Russian campaign, the Nazi barbarism, the Communist gulag, the North Italian resistance, and beyond to the political life in the two decades after the war. This world, filled with powerful personalities, drama and clashing armies, bathes in the complex light of the truth. This epic historical novel about World War II and after, written from the author's own personal experiences as an Italian Freedom Fighter, is a profoundly moving account of the war, those who fought in it on both sides, and the effects the war had on families in the author's hometown in northern Italy. A literary phenomenon in Italy, this European best-seller was voted the best Italian novel of the decade in a public survey