War in Val d'Orcia War in Val d'Orcia

War in Val d'Orcia

An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

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Publisher Description

“Remarkably moving” diaries about life in Tuscany during the German occupation of WWII—with stunning rediscovered photographs (The New York Times).

“A compelling story of heroism, compassion.” —The Washington Post

In the Second World War, Italy was torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the 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 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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2018
August 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
3.7
MB

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