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The monumental area of Mount Sabotino
Mount Sabotino, the northern bastion of the Austro-Hungarian bridgehead of Gorizia, represented a key point on the Isonzo front from the beginning of the Italo-Austrian war of 1915-18. An extraordinary fortress in stone, this relief still shows valuable evidence of the ars fortificatoria practiced first by the Austro-Hungarian technical units and, after August 1916, by the Italian ones who transformed it into a real underground bulwark. This volume in the series “Archeologia di guerra” offers the public a tool for understanding the fascinating metamorphosis of a mountain that, due to its war history, entered into myth...
Walking through the trenches from Tolmino to Caporetto
Marco Mantini, Andar per trincee da Tolmino a Caporetto. Lungo i percorsi della Grande Guerra tra Italia e Slovenia, Gaspari, Udine 2020. Where what remains tells what was. This guide was born as a vademecum to accompany the hiker along 24 itineraries on the most controversial places of the Isonzo front during the First World War (Monte Nero, Monte Rosso, Mrzli Vrh, Monte Rombon, Kolovrat, etc.), for which practical information and options on trails and travel times are provided. But this is also a book dedicated to those who, without wearing boots, love to go through paper trenches. In these pages, in fact, they will find...
