21 articles in the category: World War
Baracca Museum, in the house of the hero of Italian military aviation
Today the cameras of Detector Shop accompany you to discover the Francesco Baracca museum in Lugo, the home of the hero of Italian aviation. During the First World War, 34 downings of enemy [...]
Mariano Deperon, emotions and poetry of a
At 84 years old, Marino Deperon is a living treasure chest of stories and anecdotes. He defines himself as a "recoverer", that is, a researcher who, with history books under his arm, tries to [...]
Loris Giuriatti: the Recoverers and other stories of the Great War
In the magnificent setting of the Asiago Plateau, at Forte Corbin, we met Loris Giuriatti, Responsible for Conscious Recovery of the IV Novembre Association, writer, teacher and mountain [...]
Fort Corbin – A military story that comes to the present day
Set like a jewel on the Asiago Plateau, a few kilometers from Treschè Conca (VI), Forte Corbin was built to help defend the Italian line a few years before the outbreak of the First World [...]
Associazione IV Novembre - Discover the historical culture of the Great War
We at DetectorShop have participated, as technical collaborators, in the annual "Training Day" of the IV Novembre Association held in the evocative site of Forte Corbin in Treschè Conca [...]
Stelvio, the memory of the glaciers: the finds of the Great War resurface
The Great War in Alta Valtellina was fought - between the summer of 1914 and the end of 1918 - by Italians and Austrians among the peaks of the Ortles Cevedale, in mountains often above 3,000 [...]
The Great Tin War, interview with the historian Giovanni Dalle Fusine
Objects as guardians of memory, as witnesses of a tragic era in which a simple can of tin could make the difference between hunger and survival, between life and death. With Giovanni Dalle [...]
Loris Giuratti
Meet Loris Giuriatti, author of the column "Great War", one of the greatest connoisseurs and scholars of events and stories that really happened during the First World War, on Monte Grappa.
A history lesson on Monte Grappa with metal detector
Stop the usual lessons in classroom, the teachers sitting behind the chair and space for historical simulations in the field "if I have to explain to the boys the great war books are not enough"..
When the refrigerator created unemployment
History of when the invention of the refrigerator created unemployment Welcome back friends! Tell me a little, in this hot summer who among us has never wanted a nice lemon granita or perhaps, [...]
The Angels of Mons
Welcome friends! Today I want to tell you a story of a hot summer a hundred years ago. Almost all, reasoning by clichés, we associate the past times with the cold season, for us generation [...]
For military research, choose the legendary compact and indestructible C.SCOPE
The legendary C.SCOPE, the "No-Motion" metal detectors for military research One of the most long-lived and legendary metal detector lines on the world market comes from the United Kingdom: the [...]
Ettore Viola Count of Ca Tasson
"My Hector" This is how Countess Palma Viola di Ca Tasson always begins her stories when she talks about her husband. She, seductive Sicilian teacher, "her Ettore" meets him after the Second [...]
Piero dei Lugari
Piero has lived all his life in the mountains. Even when he was old he had to adapt to the life of the plains, as soon as the thaw allowed it, he was accompanied up there on his Grappa. I met [...]
The voice of the mountain
When the tourist comes up to us, he usually has the impression that the mountain is left to itself and that no one has control over it. It's not like that. Those who live up here have always [...]