Much of.the "Walk of Peace" is along what was the front lines between Italy and Austria-Hungary during WW1. It passes many memorials, cemeteries, trenches, gun emplacements and monuments. We decided to brush up on our WW1 history to better appreciate what we were walking by.
- The Guns of August (Barbara Tuchman)
- A 1962 Pulitzer winner that covers the 1st month of the war, and informs our domestic narrative of WW1
- The Eastern Front (Nick Lloyd)
- In a similar narrative style to the "Guns of August", this is one of the few detailed accounts of the Eastern front I could find in English
- A Farewell to Arms (Earnest Hemingway)
- A fictional account based on the author's time as an ambulance driver in WW1 Italy that was required reading in high school. I reread it on the plane ride home. The descriptions of the front included many of the places we walked by.
- WW1 for Dummies
- A basic introduction to all the key players, form those of us who mostly slept through (or forgot) our high school History classes
- To be identified:
- A video diagraming the 12 battles along the Isonso river between Italy and Austria-Hungary-Germany
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