This is the true story of Iris Origo and her husband, and their efforts to protect and rescue refugees and hide prisoners of war in the Italian countryside during World War II. A stirring document about basic humanitarianism and true courage, it is a classic of war literature.
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This is the true story of Iris Origo and her husband, and their efforts to protect and rescue refugees and hide prisoners of war in the Italian countryside during World War II. A stirring document about basic humanitarianism and true courage, it is a classic of war literature.
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Add this copy of War in Val D'Orcia 1943-1944 a Diary to cart. $132.00, very good condition, Sold by Blacks Bookshop rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Argillite, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Thorndike Press.
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Katherine Potter. Collectible-VeryGood. 5.75"x8.75"x1.25". 419 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Large Print. Pictorial hardboards. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slightly toned. Pencil ghosts from library. No other markings. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Intro by Denis Mack Smith. "A classic of World War II, here in its first American edition. 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." Goodreads ****4.14.
Add this copy of War in Val D'Orcia: 1943-1944: a Diary to cart. $197.09, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Thorndike Press.
