War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
Author(s): Iris Origo
The author, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner in 1924, found herself raising a family during the civil war and foreign invasion in the remote Tuscan countryside. This diary records her concerns to keep her household and sixty orphans together and save a rural community from annihilation. It is a story of confusion and bewilderment as a peasant society is confronted by disaster when, in the space of a few months, a whole way of life is changed completely beyond recognition. It is also a story of tragedy and suffering, of individual courage, generosity and heroism.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Allison & Busby
- : Allison & Busby
- : 31 July 2000
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Iris Origo
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 945.58
- : 256