Book Presentation: The Soldier’s Dreams

A publication born from the desire to answer the questions often asked by visitors to the sites of the Great War in Alta Valtellina: what did the soldiers eat up there? How did they keep warm? Where did they sleep? What determined their daily survival? The answers to these questions are closely connected to the communications and transport infrastructures of the time, which made life at high altitude possible—though with enormous difficulty.
The information collected is the result of study and research among military diaries, private testimonies, and archival documents. Through the analysis and comparison of these sources, the aim has been to reconstruct a realistic picture of the lives of Italian soldiers, their adversaries, and the Russian prisoners engaged on these mountains. The soldiers’ dreams were simple, yet often unreachable…
Life at high altitude, life behind the front lines, transport and communications are the main themes explored.
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