The Sergeant in the Snow - Softcover

Stern, Mario Rigoni

 
9780810160552: The Sergeant in the Snow

Synopsis

Mario Rigoni Stern was barely twenty-one and already a battle veteran at the time of the World War II disaster he describes in The Sergeant in the Snow. In July 1942 three divisions of Italian Alpini troops, specially trained for winter warfare, began retreating--entirely on foot, with no supplies, at temperatures of 30-40 degrees below zero. By the end of the march, 90,000 men were missing or dead and 45,000 frostbitten and wounded.

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Synopsis

First published in Italy in 1953, this autobiography details the author's harrowing experiences as a soldier on the Russian front during World War II.

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