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Author : Iris Origo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879234768
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book War in Val Dorcia written by Iris Origo and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the impact of the turmoil of World War II on the daily life of the peasants in a small village in Italy.
Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372665
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book War in Val d'Orcia written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller upon its original publication in the 1980s, these diaries reveal life during WWII in Tuscany and include stunning rediscovered photographs 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.
Author : Iris Origo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879235000
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book War in Val D'Orcia written by Iris Origo and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681372649
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Chill in the Air written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, author of the classic War in Val d’Orcia, provides a vivid account of how Mussolini decided on a course of action that would devastate his country and ultimately destroy his regime. Though the British-born Origo lived with her Italian husband on an estate in a remote part of Tuscany, she was supremely well-connected and regularly in touch with intellectual and diplomatic circles in Rome, where her godfather, William Phillips, was the American ambassador. Her diary describes the Fascist government’s growing infatuation with Nazi Germany as Hitler’s armies marched triumphantly across Europe and the campaign of propaganda and intimidation that was mounted in support of its new aims. The book ends with the birth of Origo’s daughter and Origo’s decision to go to Rome to work with prisoners of war at the Italian Red Cross. Together with War in Val d’Orcia, A Chill in the Air offers an indispensable record of Italy at war as well as a thrilling story of a formidable woman’s transformation from observer to actor at a great historical turning point.
Author : Iris Origo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book War in Val D'Orcia, 1943-1944 written by Iris Origo and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the impact of the turmoil of World War II on the daily life of the peasants in a small village in Italy.
Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922714
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book Iris Origo written by Caroline Moorehead and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography.
Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681373653
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Images and Shadows written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty, and her mother moved to Fiesole, Italy, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later, Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate, and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, Origo paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, and describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching.
Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385528345
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dark Water written by Robert Clark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a photographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British “mud angel” spends a month scraping mold from the world’s masterpieces; and, through it all, an author asks why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster.
Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780732276157
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book War in Val D'Orcia written by Iris Origo and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2002 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Second World War broke out, Iris Origo and her husband had been running the estate of La Foce in Tuscany since 1924. This work is her journal of those turbulent war years.
Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191142
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Italian Education written by Tim Parks and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves” (The New Yorker). “Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
