Chatting and telling, or talking while telling, was a ritual around the fireplace on winter nights, with the family gathered and wrapped in a single blanket of affection; or in the evening, when in the neighborhoods the people who lived in close contact gathered in the small spaces between the houses to be together. Then, in the streets illuminated by a dim light, you listened to the older ones, who spoke, “allegànta", of the past that you did...

This book, written by six hands, is the story of a people at war: a micro-history that fits into the framework of national history in the tragic years of the Second World War. It is the continuation and conclusion of the story of the Ierzesi at war, first in the Great War and then in the wars of the Duce, which begin with the aggression against Ethiopia, continue with participation in the war in Spain and conclude with the defeat of the Second Wo...