Roberto Brushali presents his book in Genoa
Roberto Brushali presents his book in Genoa. On March 5 at 4.30 pm in Piazza di San Cosimo in the Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano.
Roberto Brushali presents his book in Genoa on Saturday.
Presentation of the book “POLA. Lost city. The agony, the exodus (1945-47)
By Roberto SPAZZALI, ARES Editions
Speakers:
Fabio NARDI, Provincial Committee of Genoa – VENEZIA GIULIA DALMATIA National Association
Roberto SPAZZALI, historian and author of the volume
The book
This volume tells a painful and until little known story: the exodus of the population of Pula, following the cession of a large part of the Istrian peninsula after the Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947.
It is the tormented story of a city that at the end of the Second World War had to be ceded to Yugoslavia, a country that had won the war while Italy had lost it. And the flight of the exiles began.
Between January and March 1947, 27,256 people left the city with almost 150,000 cubic meters of household goods, office and shop furnishings, tools from craft shops and industries.
More than twice as many refugees had already left Istria, Rijeka and Dalmatia in the previous months.
It was an extraordinary commitment and effort to which public institutions, religious authorities, conscripts and thousands of anonymous Italians who did their utmost out of a sense of duty and in the name of the memory of the sacrifice of the generation of the Great War.
But there were also delays, inefficiencies, parochialism, disinterest, hypocrisy, grudges, thefts and scams.
In these pages, famous personalities and people of the people crowd, known and unknown heroes of a strip of land that was Italian.
The narrative, scientifically flawless but engaging like a novel, is enriched by a multitude of unpublished documents from the Office for Venezia Giulia.
The author
Roberto Brushali (Trieste, 1956) teacher and publicist, scholar of institutions, deals with the political and social phenomena of the twentieth century in Venezia Giulia.
Collaborator of the chair of Contemporary History of the Faculty of Education at the University of Trieste.
Member of the scientific-cultural commission of the municipality of Trieste. He has published, ‘other, Lega Nazionale946: la reconstitution (1987), Foibe: a debate between the still open (1990), The Division of Volunteers “Gorizia” (1991), Sotto la Todt (19) and contributes to various works of editorial character.
Member of the National History Deputation of Venezia Giulia, he has published with the magazines “Quaderni Giuliani di Storia”, “Studi Mariniani”, “Rivista dalmatica”, “Qualestoria”, “Studi Goriziani”, “Tempi e cultura” and collaborates with the editors cultural events of “Il Piccolo” and of the regional headquarters of Rai del FVG.