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War in Val d´Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944
Iris Origo
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Description for War in Val d´Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJH; BM; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 264.
The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, with a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographs
At the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman - born in England, married to an Italian - kept a record of daily life in a country at war. Iris Origo's compellingly powerful diary, War in Val d'Orcia, is the spare and vivid account of what happened when a peaceful farming valley became a battleground.
At great personal risk, ... Read more
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782272656
SKU
V9781782272656
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Iris Origo
Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During the Second World War, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of ... Read more
Reviews for War in Val d´Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944
A remarkably moving document that, like the best of the elemental war stories, eventually becomes a statement about the unplanned nature and folly of war New York Times A compelling story of heroism [and] compassion Washington Post A remarkable war diary Telegraph It is jolting to recall, through Origo's sober and self-effacing prose, the atrocious conditions of the summer of ... Read more