War in Val d'Orcia
By Iris Origo
Introduction by Virginia Nicholson
By Iris Origo
Introduction by Virginia Nicholson
By Iris Origo
Introduction by Virginia Nicholson
By Iris Origo
Introduction by Virginia Nicholson
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$18.95
Aug 07, 2018 | ISBN 9781681372662
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Aug 07, 2018 | ISBN 9781681372679
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Praise
“Origo’s diary is a compelling story of heroism, compassion, and—in the author’s words—‘the most primitive traditions of ungrudging hospitality, uncalculating brotherhood . . . the shared, simple acts of everyday life.”
—Vic Sussman, The Washington Post
“[War in Val d’Orcia] is 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.”
—Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times
“A welcome rediscovery, evoking a unique, strange moment in civilian/soldier wartime-history with spare, vital immediacy.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A remarkable war diary.”
—Daily Telegraph
“It is jolting to recall, through Origo’s sober and self-effacing prose, the atrocious conditions of the summer of 1944.”
—Financial Times
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