Soldier Of The Great War

HELPRIN

Brief Description:
Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman Lawyer lives in a world of adventure and dreams. Then the 1914 War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, still tall and proud, finds himself unexpectedly on the road with an illiterate young factory worker. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers distant, the old man tells the story of his life. How he became a soldier, a hero, a prisoner, a deserter, and finally a wanderer in the hell that claimed Europe.

Harcourt 2005 860 PP. Paper

$16.00 (in stock)