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Title: Few Returned: Twenty-Eight Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942-1943 by Eugenio Corti, Peter Edward Levy, Carlo D'Este ISBN: 0-8262-1115-1 Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.84 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Truth surpasses fiction
Comment: They say that one writes best about that which one knows best and has experienced. This is true specially of accounts of war told by those in the front lines. This book is Corti's first person account of the retreat of the German and Italian forces from the Russian front during December 1942 - January 1943, under inhuman conditions and against all odds of survival. Corti's own diary written at the time of the events provides the material used and provides us with an accurate and honest account of the events described, the people involved, the emotions felt and the entire human experience of war. Better yet, Corti's perspective is from an Italian fighting someone else's war, and therefore has an objectivity lacking in many other accounts of similar events.
Yet, the value of this book is more its insight into the human soul in times of great distress. Corti is one of those rare human beings that underwent suffering beyond words and were able to talk about it accurately, as a lesson for those of us who want to hear. To read this book as a historical account only, would be to miss Corti's point. The lesson imparted is the inhumanity of war, and its effect on those directly and indirectly involved. It is also a song to the heroism of those unsung and forgotten Italians sent to fight someone else's war, ill-equipped and for reasons they did not share, but whose sacrifice was not in vain in the eyes of God.
Rating: 4
Summary: Italians in the East
Comment: This book provides a very unique view of the Eastern Front. Not only is it a personal narrative of the great retreat from Stalingrad, but it was also written by an Italian. This means that it offers something very different from what most are used to reading--the German or Russian points of view. The Italian Army on the Eastern Front is not frequently written about in any detail and, therefore, this book would make a fine addition to any collection about the war in the east. Corti's personal narrative offers vivid description of the retreat few authors would be able to achieve. It's a good read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Diary on the horrors of War & Italian perserverance
Comment: This book is different from others in that it does not glorify War,it does not tend to over exaggerate what happened in battle, it does'nt even try to blow up the truth with nonsensical war heroics recounted ( like many german or British books, dare I say).
Its a straight forward recount in diary form of how onw Italian officer and his brave troops dared all to fight back the Russians, the bitter cold and the odds of making it back on foot without decent rations , heavyweapons or transportation which were rendered useless in battle or just plainly nevr had their ammo resupplied by the faster retreating better equiped self serving Nazis.
It si common for the uneducated armchair historian or plainly ignorant war hobbyist to brand the Italians as cowards, however when one delves deeper into the actualities of WW2 and gets to the events as they really happened unaltered by propaganda and rascist reporting then we really see that the Italians which were up against it from the start, put in as brave a performance as any fighting man could and beyond that in many a case.
I recommend this book to all for the honesty and open portrayal of the horrors of War and the true nature of men when faced with the harshness and desperation of survival.
Its not a novel as anyone who's half literate can plainly see, but a diary of man brave man and his troops that fought their way thru the russians, the elements and evn the Nazis cruelty to survive!
Enjoy the read! A must have for the war historian at heart.
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