Emigrant soldiers : mobilising Italians abroad in the First World War / Selena Daly.
| Author/creator | Daly, Selena author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press , 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Sons of sunny Italy : emigrant lives on the eve of war -- Refugees and volunteers : Italian neutrality seen from abroad -- Viva l'Italia! : setting sail for Italy in 1915 -- Serving the patria : life as an emigrant soldier -- Trickeries and broken promises : between expectation and reality -- Sons, don't come back! : emigrant draft evasion -- Crazy with joy! : victory and the end of the war -- Isolation, indifference and suspicion : experiences of emigrant veterans -- Dictatorship, occupation and internment : emigrant veterans from fascism to the Second World War -- Epilogue : the memory of Italy's emigrant soldiers. |
| Abstract | "During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned from across the world to serve in Italy's armed forces. But what happened to these men during the war and after it had ended? Emigrant Soldiers reconstructs their experiences, following the trajectories of four men who returned from the United States, Brazil, France and Britain"-- provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781009268929 |
| LCCN | 2024055001 |
| ISBN | 9781009268905 |
| ISBN | 1009268902 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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