The book contains 152 pages of detailed text and photographs
with a manufacturer's label printed in black ink on white paper and glued in place on the reverse
He served with distinction on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Pour le Mérite
Soon after the Italian military units surrendered to the Germans as the flight of Italian King Victor Emmanuel III from Rome had made further resistance senseless
Though it was just one of many battles in the region
A 1959 Italian National Olympic Commitee "Olympic Day" Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The book contains 152 pagesBronze gilt, obverse illustrating a winged angel blowing a horn, a bowl emitting a flame placed on a pedestal in the background to the right, engraver marked "MORBIDUCCI" below the angel, reverse illustrating the Olympic rings surmounted by a star and inscribed "GIORNATA OLIMPICA MCMLIX" below, surrounded by the inscription "COMITATO OLIMPICO NAZIONALE ITALIANO" with laurel leaves at its base, 32 mm, scattered gilt wear, near extremely fine.