Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sacrifice on the Steppe, Hope Hamilton.

Sacrifice on the Steppe, Hope Hamilton.

The tragic tale of the Italian Alpine Corps sent by Mussolini to fight alongside the Germans in Russia, their disastrous  retreat after the Soviet counterattack at Stalingrad, and the fate of the many men who were captured by the Soviets, from the early poor treatment to the later political indoctrination.
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