Ardito: A volunteer in an elite unit during WW1
Ardito: A volunteer in an elite unit during WW1 by Roberto Roseano
English | ASIN: B08C4FHR3Q | 420 pages | EPUB | 2020 | 2 Mb
English | ASIN: B08C4FHR3Q | 420 pages | EPUB | 2020 | 2 Mb
Winner of the 50th Edition of the "Premio Acqui Storia" (2017) and the IX Edition of the "Gen. Amedeo De Cia Award".After almost two years of war, a young sergeant decides to escape the bleak life of the trenches by volunteering for a newly created special unit of the Italian army. After a very hard training course he is selected, together with other men of proven courage, completely unaware that some privileges, such as higher wages, more leaves, no service in the trenches, will correspond to ever greater risks. The command of the 2nd Army, in fact, intends to entrust these new units with the most difficult and dangerous enterprises, such as the conquest of Mount San Gabriele. Sergeant Pietro Roseano will experience firsthand the birth and epic of a legendary elite unit in the First World War, the Arditi: from the strenuous defense of the army in retreat after the Caporetto defeat to the victorious battles of 1918 on the Plateaus and the Piave river up to Vittorio Veneto. A compelling narrative of those events through the eyes of one who lived them, risking his life.