How Long to Read A Soldier on the Southern Front

How Long Does it Take to Read A Soldier on the Southern Front?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read A Soldier on the Southern Front by Emilio Lussu

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals, in spare and detached prose, the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy, the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu's memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.

How long is A Soldier on the Southern Front?

A Soldier on the Southern Front by Emilio Lussu is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Soldier on the Southern Front Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read A Soldier on the Southern Front aloud.

What Reading Level is A Soldier on the Southern Front?

A Soldier on the Southern Front is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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