Aspecte din viata traita de soldatii din armata austro-ungara in timpul "Marelui Razboi"
Life of two soldiers in the Austro-Hungrian army during "The Great War"

Summary/Abstract: Painter Aurel Popp from Satu Mare, enlisted in Debrecen regiment, part of the 20th Division Honvéd, took part in the military conflicts on the Italian front between 1915 and 1916. During those years he tried to send her wife news on him, the events he had taken part in, and the places he had passed alongside his regiment. Three letters preserved at the County of Satu Mare Museum, which the painter sent to his wife Madzsar Irén are the main sources of the present article. By their content the letters might be associated to a war diary as their author started to write a new letter immediately after sending the previous one; his thoughts and challenges or events he experienced from the last letter to the new one are noted down regularly. Data on the regions he crossed alongside his military unit, the atmosphere on the front line, inside the ditch or on the activities behind the lines are what we might find out from these letters. Refinement and sense of humor in describing the new situations he passed through are the treasures of the painter’s vision the letters illustrate.

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