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Axes of war

Another punch in the stomach. Of those who put us to dispose of one week. This time it's actually a novel that tells a true story. Chilling, among others. Then of course, the plot-subplot top is invented, or rather, the plot makes a point of union, a bond with the true story, the protagonist is the setting is a fictional character. The very well that there is, indeed, a bit lighter 'atmosphere grave, so full of facts and people involved.

No need to say what happens: partisans in Bologna, the lives of civilians, simple daily episodes, in their atrocious inhumanity of life of people who have something to do with the days and nights of war and hunger, torture, spasms of fear and need to fight. The true story of the protagonist in the first person who lives day by day the events in this history and reviewed by fictional character in the third person, watching with interest and passion to the facts of those days not so far away.

And once again, in the tradition Luther Blissett, the star party to fight the battle from which he had been banned from child against the enemy. Once again to fight "the wrong side of history." Part incognito for Laos to fight alongside the Viet Cong. The torture of fascists and the Italian post-war reprisals are mixed with the jungle and the war atrocities and the need for massacre in danger of losing their contours give way to madness.

But inside the pages there are not only vital and Daniel, and their intertwined stories. There are our grandparents who are alive and who tell us the same things. There are images that we all have seen the wars a few years ago and there are even pictures that all we're seeing today, the images of torture, infamy, hunger and death.

And the need for redemption? The need to fight injustice? Remains un odore forte e, appunto, un pugno in pancia che avrà bisogno di diversi giorni per essere smaltito.

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Titolo: Asce di guerra
Autore: Wu Ming e Vitaliano Ravagli

Edizioni: Einaudi