A Força Expedicionária Brasileira: memórias de um conflito

Abstract

In 16 of July of 1944, they had disembarked in Italy, first the five a thousand men of Force Brazilian Expedicionária (FEB) that they would participate in the combats against the powerful German Army, in an unknown land and with an inferior training and equipment to the ones of other troops. Many had been the difficulties of the members of an expedition throughout the days of adaptation to the war environment, where the death was seen all the moment in the battlefields and the homes of the Italians. In Brazil the expectations had not been beyond a curious participation of an Army that still suffered of one better organization and modernization, for the families, however, the War were a cruel nightmare, with the possibility of the loss of dear people. After almost 11 months of a participation that could be disastrous, the men of the FEB had finished victorious people when contributing for the defeat of the Germans and for the release of Italy. The understanding of the history of the FEB passes for understanding as they were the men had formed who it and that they had started its epic at least 01 year before the embarkment. This work will not only study that War and nor only the FEB, but mainly these men.