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"In the middle of July [1917] the brigade was withdrawn for a rest. My battalion encamped between Asiago and Gallio, on the reserve line along Monte Sesemol, to carry out defensive works. We were still within range of enemy artillery fire, but well sheltered in narrow valleys. Occasionally a single enemy reconnaissance machine flew over us at a great height and was quickly chased away by our fighting squadrons from the base at Bassano. Bombing planes never disturbed our rest. So it was that the tragic days through which we had just passed were followed by others almost happy. Men who had been lightly wounded rejoined the battalion, and new arrivals, both officers and men, came to fill the gaps that had been made in the ranks. . . . One very soon began to forget. Life regained its ascendancy. My orderly, who had also been wounded, rejoined from hospital. He once more took up his study of the book on birds and I that of Baudelaire and Ariosto."
Beginning paragraph of the last chapter of Emilio Lussu's Sardinian Brigade, an account of a year fighting on the Asiago plateau, on Italy's northern border. The book closes with Lussu and his fellow officers being told they are about to be transferred to the front beyond Italy's northeast, where the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo was in progress.
Sardinian Brigade by Emilio Lussu, pp. 268–269, copyright © 1939 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher: Knopf, publication date: 1939
1917-07-15, 1917, July, Battles of the Isonzo, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, Eleventh Isonzo
