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Sgorlon's novel, the first English translation ofż"L'Armata dei fiumi perdutiż," winner of the Premio Strega in 1985, is based on the encounter between the Friulans and the Cossacks in this little-known tragedy of World War II. In the summer of 1944 a Cossack army complete with its dependents - women, children, and the aged, along with horses, camels, tents, and icons - descended on Friuli. In exchange for supporting the Germans against the Red Army, the Germans had promised them this region in mountainous, northeastern Italy as a new homeland, and then the Germans abandoned both the invading Cossacks and the native Friulans to their terrible fates. Against this Alpine backdrop, beneath the nightly bombing flights of the Flying Fortresses and between the retreating Germans and the advancing Americans, townspeople, partisans and Cossacks are caught in an ominous web. Carlo Sgorlon has also published an English translation of his novel, The Wooden Throne, with Italica Press.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Army of the Lost Rivers
• Author: Carlo Sgorlon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• EAN: 9780934977623
• ISBN: 9780934977623
• ID: 07419897
• Publisher: Italica Press
• Weight: 371 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. December 2009

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