Toes Up

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Excerpt from Toes Up: A Chronicle of Gay and Doleful Adventures, of Alpini and Mules and WineIN the slang of the Alpini, mettere Ze scarpe al sole1 means to die in battle. In this war chronicle of mine, to tell the truth, my discourse is not only of the fallen. Many of us have come back, have resumed our travels along the ways Of the world, and are already hearing the summons to other struggles. But these are new struggles, for different ideas: and we too are new, reborn from the ruins of a dead past whose indelible furrows are left upon us, like the abandoned trenches on the crests of hills now once more solitary. That of ourselves which we took into the war We did not bring back again: it was truly a life that was taken from us as the bullet took it from thousands of our comrades whose collars bore the ¿ame or the patch.2 All that was most simple-hearted and most lavish in our youth turned its toes up, too, on the last rocks retaken from the enemy, on the last days of a time which an interval of two years has made fabulously remote.The manuscript of this book had been finished for some time but the wary publishers refused it, now more than a year ago, because it was out of fashion, because it now seemed bad taste to pay any more attention to the living and the dead who obeyed the order for a holocaust. Will it still seem so today, when a reborn spirit of youth sings again the songs of our vigils and our passion in city squares and in country villages?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.