Cimiterio Agli Invitti Militaire Della Di Redipuglia 3A Armata
REDIPUGLIA WAR CEMETERY.
Ufficio Centrale per la Cura e le Onoranze delle Salme Dei Caduti in Guerra
A RARE MOMENTO OF THE ORIGINAL THIRD ARMY CEMETERY
Published: [Civicchioni Chiavari], n.d. [c.1920]
Stock code: 41046
Price: £84.00
Oblong 4to., text in Italian, with introduction and 34 full-page plates toned in sepia; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, original ribbon present, yapped edges, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy.
A rare momento of the original Redipuglia War Cemetery housing 30,000 graves of soldiers of the Italian Third Army killed between 1915 and 1917. The original cemetery is now replaced by the Redipuglia War Memorial, inaugurated in 1938 in the presence of Mussolini. It is the largest war memorial in Italy with over 100,000 graves (including those of the original interment). A RARE SURVIVAL FROM THE GREAT WAR IN ITALY.