Mario Rigoni Stern

[Sergente_nella_neve]

I’m sad to announce that Mario Rigoni Stern is dead, tonight. He was 86-years old and he was ill since long time.

He was a great writer. He wrote “Il Sergente nella neve” (“The sergeant in the snow”), the most popular book about the tragic italian retreat from Ukraine, during WW2. He was a gunner sergeant of the Alpini Expeditionary Corp. You can learn more by clicking on the links on my signature, or by searching in the web.

Goodbye, old sergeant.

[Gewehr]

It seems like more and more of the “Greatest Generation” are slowly passing away. :cry:

[Jermofoot]

@Gewehr:

It seems like more and more of the “Greatest Generation” are slowly passing away. :cry:

I thought that only applied to Americans and their Allies?

And I wonder why they might be passing away…hmm…

[dezrtfish]

I’m going to go with “they’re really old”…