Story about El Alamein - La linea del fuoco / El Alamein - The Line of Fire / 沙漠兄弟连 / 血战阿拉曼
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a univerity student from Palermo who volunteer in 1942 to fight ...
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a univerity student from Palermo who volunteer in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offenive. At firt, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirt bedevil the Italian; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?