War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (New York Review Books Classics)

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A bestseller upon its original publication within the 1980s, these diaries reveal life all the way through WWII in Tuscany and include stunning rediscovered photographs

At the peak of the Second World War, Italy used to be 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 day by day 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 turned into a battleground.

At great personal risk, the Origos gave food and shelter to partisans, deserters and refugees. They took in evacuees, and because the front drew closer they faced the data that the lives of thirty-two young children trusted 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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