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    Tales From The Parlour and The Trenches
    Tales From The Parlour and The Trenches
    Tales From The Parlour and The Trenches
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    Tales From The Parlour and The Trenches

    By Gregorio Giungi

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    “Tales from the parlour and the trenches” tells the true story of Enea Milesi. More than just a biography – tragic and intense - of a character whose life in Italy straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, this is an historical novel in which the protagonist’s emotions and personal struggles become a pretext for depicting, in a politically incorrect manner, the events of the First World War. Fought in the chaos of Italy’s trenches and the country’s military unpreparedness the war is a “Great Fair of Human Flesh”.
    Enea, a young man on the brink of adulthood, leaves for the front in 1916 armed with spartan determination following his brother’s death in action. He survives the conflict distinguishing himself by his bravery and military skill, but returns from the trenches of Northern Italy a changed man. The Second World War ensues and Enea “suffers through it as a civilian” in constant fear for the life of his wife and children and the safety of his property. In the years that follow he faces the inevitable epilogue of his own existence.
    “Tales from the parlour and the trenches” opens a window on a man’s private and intimate life, on his relationships and family dramas, against a backdrop of warfare. Enea shares with his fellow soldiers “bread, blood, danger and shit” and his story is both an unforgettable tableau of a lost age and a moving testimonial from a generation that knew how to smile in the face of death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGregorio Giungi
    Release dateJun 15, 2014
    ISBN9781311774651
    Tales From The Parlour and The Trenches
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    Gregorio Giungi

    Gregorio Giungi was born on the 15th of April 1961 in Ancona, EU-central Italy. After his graduation by the local Grammar High School, he got a university degree in Political Sciences. Then he joined the army, starting his service as an administrative officer, yet becoming later a PSYOPS Specialist. In 2005, as an allied officer, he obtained a qualification of Regional Expert for the Middle-East by the “John F. Kennedy” Special Warfare Center School in Fort Bragg-North Carolina (USA), thus passing definitively to the Special Operations Forces. He participated therefore in the NATO missions, serving twice in Afghanistan (ISAF) as an operational area analyst and mass communication expert. In 2009 Ltn. Col. Gregorio Giungi was in charge of the KFOR Psychological Operations Centre in Pristina, Kosovo. As a geo-political analyst, during 2010 he cooperated with the Geopolitics Magazine on-line “Equilibri.net-A new perspective on global affairs”. In the same year he joined the team of “Influence Solutions Ltd.” – a British Defense Services Agency providing support to the areas of Strategic Communications and Influence Activity – as a Subject Matter Expert on-demand. Currently, he is back to his administrative duties in a territorial command of the Italian Army, looking anxiously forward to his approaching date of retirement. “Tales from the parlour and the trenches” represents his first honest effort to become a professional novelist.

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