Nuto Revelli’s Wars by John Penuel
Note on the Translation
Preface
Part One
-If I Have a Third Daughter, I’ll Name her Vera
-It’ll Be War and Not Much Else
-Be Strong, Hold Out, You Have a Family
-Fascists Worse than Bedbugs
-If You’re a Capitalist, Go Back to Italy
-Get Out of Here before It Gets Cold
-Mussolini, Empire, Just War
-I Don’t Want to Go Back to Italy
-Courage, If We Get Through, We’re Home Free
-I Love the Country More than Before
-A Little Tube of Shaving Cream
-Around the World like a Bunch of Marmots
-Russians Are Fair People
-We’ll Win and It Will All Be Over
-Anyone from Valgrana?
-In Russia We Go Numb
-We’ll Die Like Rats
-It’s a Single Cry: “Help, Help, Mother, Mother”
-The Timid Are Bound to Die
-Surrender, Italians, You’re Already Prisoners
-For Lots of People, War Means Making Money
-Every Sunset Meant One Day Less
-Not Fascists: Alpinist!
-Alpini, You’ll All Make It Back
-Try It Again and I’ll Smack You Upside the Head, Too
-I Know Where Russia Is and That’s It
-How Many Fountains I Dreamed of in Russia
-You Laugh Once When You Go to War
-The War Is Over
Part Two
-A Never-Ending Job
-Those Who Flee Make It
-We Are All Generals
-We’ll Go Where They Take Us
-It Won’t Be Long Now
-Whoever Is Singing Is Drunk
-Let Mussolini Burn Alive
-I’ll Never Go to Italy to Kill Italians
-Finally, an Order: Every Man for Himself
-Come to Japan with Us
-Come on, We Have to Make it to Turin
-The Heroic Sacrifice of the Cuneense
-Homo Homini Lupus
Afterword: The Retreat from Russia
Notes
Index