ŽIVLJENJE OB ŽELEZNI CESTI (LIFE NEXT TO RAILROAD)
Sto let Bohinjske proge (A hundred years of Bohinj railway)
Published by Tolmin Museum, 2006
192 color pages, Slovene publication

Price: 13,46 €

The book, a preface for which has been written by Vasko Simoniti PhD, the Slovene Minister of Culture, opens with a short text About Tolmin and Tolmin Court Circuit before the First World War written by Branko Marušič PhD. What follows is an extensive text created by Lovro Galić, a great expert and researcher of the military events of the First World War. The text is devided in two parts. The first part deals in thirteen chapters with events taking place from the beginning of the Isonzo battle till October 24th, 1917. The second part focuses on the twelfth Isonzo battle and the breakthrough of the Italian front. War operations and happenings are revealed in the following seven chapters. Further on there is a record of Concluding Ideas and a summary translated into German, Italian an English language. As an addition to the book there are to be found various enclosures with testimonies of war participants. All of them are translated into Slovene. A reader can also find enclosed 10 cartographic supplements which demonstrate war operations on the Isonzo front and a national topographical map in a scale of 1: 50.000 which serves as assistance to orientation on the geografically agitated Tolmin ground.

The book is supplemented with images and with first publication of documentary shots taken from Aleksij Nikolaj’s first personal foto album from Kamnik named Memories of the War Against Italy.

Price: 17,31 €

Authoresses of the second book, Petra Svoljšak PhD, Darja Pirih and Damjana Fortunat Černilogar MSc, describe lives of soldiers and burdens of local inhabitants. They also depict military graveyards which soon covered numerous meadows and pastures after the ouburst of the Isonzo battles. The blood-tax which inflicted villages around Tolmin can be percieved from the enclosed list of victims. Many native people in a function of soldiers, of people serving military service or as civilists became victims of the First World War. Lists of casualties of Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the Tolmin bridgehead from 1915 to 1917 have been firstly elaborated and published on the basis of archival sources. 11.780 known and unknown Austro-Hungarian soldiers were recorded. Methodological explanations to lists of casualties on the area of the XV. Austro-Hungarian corpus were given by Lovro Galić.

Price: 17,31 €

The collected texts are enriched with twenty-seven picture postcards of the Tolmin area from before WWI and with other illustrations.

The miscellany is devoted to the composer, choirmaster and music teacher Maks Pirnik. In its first part there are 16 texts in which his acquaintances, students and colleagues tell about him. The second part consists of papers presented at a conference held in Nova Gorica in 1982, for his 80th anniversary, and mostly tells about his professional work in music and music teaching. Numerous photographs from his life enrich the book.

Price: 8,46 €

Miha Mlinar
CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL TRAIL OF MOST NA SOČI
Published by LTO Sotočje and Tolmin museum, 2005
80 coloured pages, Slovene and English edition

Most na Soči is shortly named Most (Bridge). The place has been closely linked to the two bridges over Soča and Idrijca Rivers since the distant past. During the trail we are accompanied by an owl, which is, according to Greek mythology, a personification of wisdom. The owl shaped on a Greek vessel, known as skyphos, was found at Most na Soči during archaeological researches in 2001.
Most na Soči is known to European history as one of the most complex archaeological sites in the South-Eastern Alps. It is a real archaeological tresury therefore the greatest emphasis is put on the presentation of archaeological heritage. The importance of the place throughout a period of three millenia is manifested by the Bronze Age, Iron Ages, Roman and Early Middle Ages foundings. The guide also informs us about local sacral, historical, architectural and technical monuments. Furthermore, prominent personalities and their merits for the rising of Slovenian culture have been introduced to the reader.
Marked cultural trail is lead through Most na Soči and the nearby villages Modrejce and Modrej. Main interests of the villages surrounding Most na Soči (Drobočnik, Gorenji Log, Tolminski Lom, Kanalski Lom, Bača pri Modreju, Postaja and Kozmerice) are assessed in the continuation of the guide. More tourist and other local information is included in the guide.

Price: 3,85 €

The books can be purchased in the museum shop or ordered by email.