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The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, with a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographsAt 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.
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'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 1944' -- Financial Times
'Relates in vivid detail the experiences of civilians who had the terrible misfortune to find themselves pinned between battling armies... beyond doubt a minor masterpiece' -- Washington Post
'A welcome rediscovery - evoking a unique, strange moment in civilian/soldier wartime-history with spare, vital immediacy' -- Kirkus Reviews
'A masterpiece of reportage about the simultaneous world war and civil war that ravaged Italy 70 years ago' -- New York Times
'Superb' --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
'Origo was a remarkable writer, with a clear, engaging style, a mind steeped in history and a scholarship, but alive always to the nuances and subtleties of human relationships. The hope is that [Pushkin's republication of her work] bring her a new generation of readers' --TLS
'In her biographies, she was able to write precisely on the cusp between the two cultures, turning her work into a bridge of interpretation and understanding' --Tessa Hadley, London Review of Books
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'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 1944' -- Financial Times
'Relates in vivid detail the experiences of civilians who had the terrible misfortune to find themselves pinned between battling armies... beyond doubt a minor masterpiece' -- Washington Post
'A welcome rediscovery - evoking a unique, strange moment in civilian/soldier wartime-history with spare, vital immediacy' -- Kirkus Reviews
'A masterpiece of reportage about the simultaneous world war and civil war that ravaged Italy 70 years ago' -- New York Times
'Superb' --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
'Origo was a remarkable writer, with a clear, engaging style, a mind steeped in history and a scholarship, but alive always to the nuances and subtleties of human relationships. The hope is that [Pushkin's republication of her work] bring her a new generation of readers' --TLS
'In her biographies, she was able to write precisely on the cusp between the two cultures, turning her work into a bridge of interpretation and understanding' --Tessa Hadley, London Review of Books
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 Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her memoir, Images and Shadows, as well as two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi, as well as two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical and The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli.
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- Data di pubblicazione2005
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- Numero di pagine192
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escaped Allied prisoners of war - and stand up to the Germans, who occupied La Foce in 1944 and forced the Origos to retreat under a hot June sun. It is a story of confusion and bewilderment as a peasant society is confronted by disaster and, in the space of a few months, a whole way of life is changed beyond recognition. It is also a story of tragedy and suffering, of individual courage, generosity and heroism. The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, and the struggle to save the children and the rural way of life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781782272656
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