A.O.I. post card

[Semovente]

Picked this very nice post card up today ! ..Not had this one before.. so a nice addition to the collection..

[andrea]

Picked this very nice post card up today ! ..Not had this one before.. so a nice addition to the collection..

very beautiful postcard ! drawn by Gino Boccasile it shows the Amba Alagi hill where the italian troops surrender to the british in 1941, and behind the commander the Duke Amedeo D'Aosta ( the ONLY honour man of the Savoia Family)that died in a prisoner camp one year later

The inscription shows his last words before surrending: we will come back!
Ciao

[mufasa]

very nice Boccasile postcards!
ciao Oriano

[Semovente]

Thanks Mufasa & Andrea .....yes it is a classic item of Italian war time art work ! ...i was very to get it as i had not had one before !.....Semovente...

[mufasa]

are two the propaganda postards edited in early 1942 to celebrate the figure of the Duke of Aosta (and the loss of Oriental Africa)

[mufasa]

and the figure of Amedeo and his Death in Kenia had a great echo in the Italy in war....... so many publications were edited to commemorate his great figure .... here's one that I found just this week in a flea market....

here some Amedeo "meharist" pictures in the 1920s in Lybia ....

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...arista&page=12

[Semovente]

Great stuff Mufasa as always my friend .....the Duke was highly respected by the British Army..and he and his forces were accorded the ' Honours of War ' by Gen Cunningham after the Duke's surrender at Amba Alagi in 1941 !

[Dennis S]

It wasn't all about guns and war....

[mufasa]

Great stuff Mufasa as always my friend .....the Duke was highly respected by the British Army..and he and his forces were accorded the ' Honours of War ' by Gen Cunningham after the Duke's surrender at Amba Alagi in 1941 !

very nice additions!

more two photos of the Duke with his great friend and collaborator for many years General Giovan Battista Volpini (Verona, August 24, 1883 - Amba Alagi, May 16, 1941)

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...hlight=volpini


killed by abyssinian guerrillas during the surrender dealsat Amba Allagi) and Amedeo the last moments before surrender



http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...hlight=volpini

[mufasa]

and tomb of the viceroy of Italian East Africa, Amadeo di Savoia, Duca di Aosta in the Italian memorial church in Nyeri

[Raffaello Carola]

Dear friends thanks to all very nice photos and postcards.
What do we think to open an thread about the fascist era paper propaganda?
I'm waiting yours input. Thanks
best
Raff

[mufasa]

Dear friends thanks to all very nice photos and postcards.
What do we think to open an thread about the fascist era paper propaganda?
I'm waiting yours input. Thanks
best
Raff

good idea! as soon as I have a moment....
Usually I collect the "behind" of the postcards (sender, recipient, signatures, postal and military stamps, and for this reason I have many double) but the Italian postcards between the two wars e during the II often are a artwork of great artists designs....