A literary phenomenon in Italy, The Red Horse, a European best-seller, was voted the best Italian novel of the decade in a public survey. Its success had gone far beyong Italy, as the book has been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese and three other languages.

This epic historical novel about World War II and after, written from the author's own personal experiences as an Italian Freedom Fighter, is a profoundly moving account of the war, those who fought in it on both sides, and the effects the war had on families in the author's hometown in Italy.

On a wider scale, it is a faithful witness to the actual events of the war - including the role of historic personages who appear, the Russian campaign, the Nazi barbarism, the Communist gulag, the North Italian resistance, and political life in the two decades following the war. This world, filled with powerful personalities, drama and clashing armies, bathes in the light of the truth.

What makes this truly historical novel, with its epic scope, a masterpiece is the underlying spiritual dimensions of the protagonist, his family and friends, which illuminates the ongoing tragedy of the war and its aftermath. In the end, it is a story of faith and hope in a world reduced to barbarism and cruelty.

When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, 'Come!' And out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth so that men should slay one another."
-Revelation 6:3-4

Born in 1921 in Lombardy, Italy Eugenio Corti joined the Italian Freedom Fighters during World War II. From his experiences of the tragic retreat from Russia, Corti wrote Few Returned, a deeply moving chronicle, and The Last Soldiers of the King, a book about the Italian Freedom Fighters. Corti is greatly loved and widely respected in Italy.

Praise for Corti's book Few Returned:

"A stunning portrayal of the Eastern Front campaigns of World War II. An honest depiction of the brutality and the heroic resistence to defeat. Highly recommended."
-Library Journal

"This book cannot be recommended strongly enough. Read it to understand the horror of war ot to see a testament to faith. Read the book!"
-Military Books Online

"This epic novel takes the reader deep into the richly textured life twentieth-century Italy as it gropes its way through the powerful political forces of Fascism and Communism, and the timeless light of the Church. As with all great literature, it is unstinting in its examination of the human condition, while at the same time pointing to the eternal truths by which man finds the ultimate meaning of his life."
-Michael O'Brien
Author, Father Elijah

"Eugenio Corti's The Red Horse is a powerful and moving tale of the Second World War by one of Italy's most acclaimed writers. Its publication in English is a landmark event. An important and unforgettable novel of the most catastrophic event in history, written by one who lived through it."
-Carlo D'Este
Author, Patton: A genius for War

"The Red Horse may be the greatest novel of the last 50 years, and Eugenio Corti is certainly the greatest Christian writer since Tolkien. This is more than a compelling story with memorable characters-though it is that too. This book is nothing less than the saga of our time."
-Thomas Fleming
The Rockford Institute

"True pages... A document of rare artistic talent. A constantly powerful narration from a pen endowed with exceptional descriptive art. A Catholic proposal in a moment in which the subtle wind of compromise is creeping into morality. Indeed, a masterpiece destined to last."
-L'Osservatore Romano

"A massive and massively impressive book. A novel in the finest and most accomplished tradition of the craft-one to relish for a very long time to come."
-Michael Coren
Author, The Man Who Was Chesterton

"Eugenio Corti's epic novel is an account of love and right order set within the de-Christianization of Italy and Western society. The novel is absorbing and of classic scope."