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War in Val d'Orcia, an Italian war diary, 1943-1944, Iris Origo ; introduction by Virginia Nicholson

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War in Val d'Orcia, an Italian war diary, 1943-1944, Iris Origo ; introduction by Virginia Nicholson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

War in Val d'Orcia

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electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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Iris Origo ; introduction by Virginia Nicholson

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Sub title

an Italian war diary, 1943-1944

Summary

"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, the Origos gave food and shelter to partisans, deserters, and refugees. They took in evacuees, and as the front drew closer they faced the knowledge that the lives of thirty-two small children depended on them. Origo writes with sensitivity and generosity, and a story emerges of human acts of heroism and compassion, and the devastation that war can bring"--, Provided by publisher

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