- Eugenio Corti
Eugenio Corti (b. 1921 in
Lombardy , Italy) is an italianwriter . After participating in the Italian retreat from Russia in World War II, he joined the Italian Freedom Fighters. Based on these experiences, he wrote "Few Returned" and "The Last Soldiers of the King." [cite book|author=Corti, Eugenio|title=The Last Soldiers of the King: Wartime Italy, 1943-1945 (non-fiction)|location= Columbia, Missouri|publisher=University of Missouri Press|date=2003|pages=329 pp.] [cite journal|url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=72371119466767|date=March, 2005|journal=H-Net Reviews|title=A philosophical soldier (review of "The Last Soldiers of the King")|author=Van Ells, Mark D. (City University of New York)|accessdate=2007-08-28] His seminal work however is "The Red Horse ", a 1,000 page novel again based on his experiences and those of his fellow Italians during and after the Second World War. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-70379213.html] It was voted the best book of the 1980s in a public survey in Italy and has been translated into six languages, including Japanese [http://www.traces-cl.com/2006E/01/eugeniocorti.html] .References
External links
[http://www.eugeniocorti.it/ Eugenio Corti's home page] (in Italian)
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