A Chill in the Air
An Italian War Diary 1939-1940
A gripping unpublished diary from the bestselling diarist and biographer, covering Italy's descent into warIris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own.With piercing insight, Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more and more unavoidable. Connected to everyone, from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78227-356-1
- EAN: 9781782273561
- Produktnummer: 24460243
- Verlag: Pushkin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 239 KB
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Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British- born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy at her 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. Pushkin Press also publishes her bestselling diary, War in Val d'Orcia, which covers the years 1943-1944, as well as her memoir, Images and Shadows, and two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude and The Last Attachment.
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