100 years ago: Gorizia/Doberdo

Subject: 100 years ago: Gorizia/Doberdo
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 Aug 16 - 11:04 AM

It's not often a battle is commemorated by a magnificent song from each side. The Battle of Gorizia between Italy and Hungary, August 1916:

Italian:

https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=it&id=47

Hungarian:

https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=it&id=8706

Both have been recorded many times.

Subject: RE: 100 years ago: Gorizia/Doberdo
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Sep 16 - 11:56 AM

I missed an obvious point: the Slovenians were in the middle. The multiethnic but mostly Slovene city of Gorizia became the Aleppo of WW1, blasted out of existence. One Slovenian song on the battle became almost an anthem:

http://www.hervardi.com/bitka_za_doberdob.php

Google Translate does a good job on that. There is also an Italian page on it:

https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=49622

I don't really get Slavic choral singing, but it's as short and to the point as war commemoration songs get.

Subject: RE: 100 years ago: Gorizia/Doberdo
From: Jack Campin
Date: 24 Jul 22 - 07:38 PM

And it's still going on. There are wildfires burning all along the river Isonzo, and the firefighters can't get close enough to put them out because unexploded shells are going off.