Journals

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Journals from the trenches were constituted by booklets written by soldiers and disseminated around the trenches. Copies, with a humorous nature strictly connected to the battalion of which they were the expression, were often reproduced by the polygraph or even handwritten. The diffusion around the Italian trenches began a few months after the Country joined the war, but, later, such publications changed considerably. Indeed, after Caporetto, the journals played a fundamental role within the propaganda of the Italian Government, already committed to cheer its soldiers up. The publications became printed and of a better quality, thanks also to the participation of several writers and reporters of the time. The topic of nutrition, seen from a satirical and humorous standpoint, was always present in these journals; the fiercest comics and cartoons were mainly addressed to the enemies, the Austrians, and almost all of them were concentrated on their shortage of food, whereas, within the 'Rassegna gastronomica'/Gastronomic review of the journal 'Il Razzo', the Cook of the company, as he signed himself, proposed humorous recipes . The present gallery proposes some cartoons and texts drawn by 'La Ghirba', 'La Tradotta’ and 'il Razzo'.