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War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
by Origo, Iris
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0879234768
- ISBN 13
- 9780879234768
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
David R. Godine Publisher, 2010. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x7. In Very Good+ condition. War in Val d'Orcia is Iris Origo's 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.With the immediacy only a diary can have, the book tells how the Marchesa Origo, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner, kept La Foce and its farms functioning while war threatened to overrun it and its people. She and her husband managed to protect their peasants, succor refugee children from Genoa and Turrin, hide escaped Allied prisoners of war-and somehow stand up to the Germans, who in dread due course occupied La Foce in 1944 and forced the Marchesa to retreat under a hot June sun.Fleeing eight impossible miles on foot, along a mined road under shell fire, with sixty children in tow, she sheltered her flock in the dubious safety of a nearby village. A few days later, official Fascism disappeared, and La Foce was ransacked by the retreating Wehrmacht. Here, as the restoration of La Foce begins, her book ends.Beyond praise and above mere documentary value, War in Val d'Orcia belongs to the literature of humanity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010030537
- Title
- War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
- Author
- Origo, Iris
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0879234768
- ISBN 13
- 9780879234768
- Publisher
- David R. Godine Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 5x0x7
- X weight
- 21 oz
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.