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The participation of Italian troops on the side of Hitler's Germany in the war against the USSR is just one episode of such a global conflict as the Second World War, where millions of people and dozens of countries came together in a deadly battle. But for both Italy and Ukraine, this episode was very significant and to some extent unique, even on the scale of world history. For perhaps for the first time, the invaders and the population of the occupied territories treated each other not with hostility and hatred, but with sympathy and mutual respect - up to and including saving the lives of formal "enemies".
In this book, the curious reader will receive comprehensive information about this page of history, full of drama and humanity, described in popular science essays by leading experts on the subject Maria Teresa Giusti (Italy) and Oleksandr Potylchak (Ukraine). You will also witness the defeat and subsequent retreat of Italian troops together with the hero of the documentary novel Sergeant in the Snow by the prominent writer Mario Rigoni-Stern, which has become a classic of military memoir and is being published in Ukrainian for the first time.