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During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned to Italy from around the world to perform their conscripted military service, a mass mobilisation which was a uniquely Italian phenomenon. But what happened to these men following their arrival and once the war had ended? Selena Daly reconstructs the lives of these emigrant soldiers before, during and after the First World War, considering their motivations, combat experiences, demobilisation, and lives under Fascism and in the Second World War. Adopting a micro-historical approach, Emigrant Soldiers explores the diverse fates of four men who returned from the United States, Brazil, France, and Britain, interwoven with accounts of other emigrants from across Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Through letters, diaries, memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, and diplomatic reports, Daly focuses on the experiences and voices of the emigrant soldiers, providing a new global account of Italians during the First World War.
Contents
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Sons of sunny Italy: emigrant lives on the eve of war; 2. Refugees and volunteers: Italian neutrality seen from abroad; 3. Viva l'Italia!: setting sail for Italy in 1915; 4. Serving the patria: life as an emigrant soldier; 5. Trickeries and broken promises: between expectation and reality; 6. Sons, don't come back!: emigrant draft evasion; 7. Crazy with joy!: victory and the end of the war; 8. Isolation, indifference and suspicion: experiences of emigrant veterans; 9. Dictatorship, occupation and internment: emigrant veterans from Fascism to the Second World War; 10. Epilogue: the memory of Italy's emigrant soldiers; Bibliography; Index.
