War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
Politique et gouvernement (biographies), Europe (histoire), Seconde Guerre mondiale
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
In the Second World War Italy was torn apart by German armies civil war and the Allied invasion In a corner of Tuscany one woman born in England married to an Italian… kept a record of daily life in a country at war Iris Origo s powerful diary War in Val d Orcia is the spare and vivid account of what happened when a peaceful farming valley became a battleground At great personal risk the Origos gave food and shelter to partisans deserters and refugees They took in evacuees and as the front drew closer they faced the knowledge that the lives of thirty-two small children depended on 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