Historical events, technological acquisitions, social and anthropological experiences, which, in spite of the mystifying temperament of these days, which professes to be open and civilized, is, in reality, a form, dangerous, well-orchestrated and not even too disguised censorship of obscurantism, which, in the name of a pretended goodness preclude study and understanding.
Therefore, with its rich fund, the Ares Military Bookshop in Rome, has never kept to the mere theme of war, but has constantly enriched itself with works on political, social, cultural, and technical subjects intended to explain the nature and reasons for the war phenomenon, its protagonists and its victims, showing itself open to every direction of study, without ideological preclusions.
Moreover, it has not limited itself to the acquisition and sale of valuable book works, but has seen fit, so to speak, to throw itself into the fray, making itself the publisher of a contained but authoritative catalog of works of lofty scholarly value, such as the volumes on the History of the War in the Pacific by Prof. Alberto Santoni, or texts of high popularity, which current publishing would not hold in worthy regard.
Equally, the Ares Military Library in Rome did its best, at least in the early years of its life, to organize lectures of the most diverse topics entrusted to academics, conservators of public collections, and talented experts. He procured publications and documentation used for screenplay writing and filming. He purchased entire libraries, acquiring, among other things, works that are now unobtainable.
Always open to new technologies, Rome’s Libreria Militare Ares, now equipped with a very modern and highly accessible Internet site, is ready to take up the challenge of modernity, flanking its traditional on-site sales with an increasingly efficient online business, which intends to reach out to enthusiasts in the territory and also propose itself on the international market, which has proven to be very responsive in the matter of out-of-print, rare or antiquarian books.
Therefore, the Ares Military Bookshop in Rome, which has always considered its patrons, more than ordinary customers, passionate friends, invites them all to visit the premises or to consult the website, because military history, still a niche of a niche, is actually the story of all of us; and to disperse it because of preconceptions would be for anyone the irreparable loss of the past and the senseless rejection of the essential foundations of the future.