1799 – Le Baionette sagge – La campagna del maresciallo Suvorov in Italia e la "Prima Restaurazione" in Lombardia

This volume, entitled '1799 – Wise bayonets – Marshal Suvorov's Italian campaign and the “First Restoration” in Lombardy', by Marco Galandra and Marco Baratto (which derives its title from Suvorov's famous remark 'the bullet is wild, the bayonet is wise') deals with Suvorov's successful campaign against the French troops in northern Italy between April and August 1799. Indeed, this is an episode little treated by historians of the revolutionary period. The work has many illustrations and maps and describes the combats at Magnano, Cassano d'Adda, Trebbia and Novi Ligure, with the orders of battle of the opposing armies listed in the Appendix. In the final chapter Marco Baratto draws a picture of the 'First Restoration' in Lombardy, when the temporarily victorious Austrians attempted to put the clock back to the times of the established order before the arrival of the republican troops.