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Depicts the impact of the turmoil of World War II on the daily life of the peasants in a small village in Italy
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A classic of World War II here in its first American edition War in Val dOrcia is Iris Origos elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce a manor in a Tuscan nomans land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil warWith the immediacy only a diary can have the book tells how the Marchesa Origo an AngloAmerican 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 warand 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 sunFleeing 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 endsBeyond praise and above mere documentary value War in Val dOrcia belongs to the literature of humanity
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Physical description x 350 p 16 p of plates ill ports 24 cm Subjects Origo Iris 19021988 Critics Italy Biography English Italy Biography
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Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth went on to accomplish great things In Origos case she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity a legacy of work biography autobiography and literary criticism that have become recognized as classics of their kindShe was born into a wealthy and longestablished Long Island family the Cuttings but her talented and beloved father who resembled more than a little a character right out of Henry James died of consumption when she was only nine She spent the following years traveling the world with her mother and an extensive entourage settling finally at the Villa Medici at Fiesole and entering into the privileged world of wealthy AngloFlorentine expatriates whose likes included the Berensons Harold Acton Janet Ross and Edith Wharton and whose petty bickering and pettier politics had a profound influence on how she spent her lifeHer marriage to Antonio Origo a wealthy landowner and sportsman was as much a reaction to this insular world as it was a surprise to her family and friends Together they purchased and singlehandedly revived an extensive arid valley in Tuscany called Val dOrcia rebuilding the farmsteads and the manor house Although clearly sympathetic to Mussolinis land use policies they sided firmly with the Allies during World War II taking considerable risks in protecting children sheltering partisans and repatriating Allied prisonersofwar to their unitsCaroline Moorehead has made extensive use of unpublished letters diaries and papers to write what will surely be considered the definitive biography of this remarkable woman She has limned a figure who was brave industrious and fiercely independent but hardly saintly What emerges is a portrait of one of the more intriguing attractive and intelligent women of the last century
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The author an AngloAmerican married to an Italian landowner in 1924 found herself raising a family during the civil war and foreign invasion in the remote Tuscan countryside This diary records her concerns to keep her household and sixty orphans together and save a rural community from annihilation It is a story of confusion and bewilderment as a peasant society is confronted by disaster when in the space of a few months a whole way of life is changed completely beyond recognition It is also a story of tragedy and suffering of individual courage generosity and heroism
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Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth went on to accomplish great things In Origos case she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity a legacy of work biography autobiography and literary criticism that have become recognized as classics of their kindShe was born into a wealthy and longestablished Long Island family the Cuttings but her talented and beloved father who resembled more than a little a character right out of Henry James died of consumption when she was only nine She spent the following years traveling the world with her mother and an extensive entourage settling finally at the Villa Medici at Fiesole and entering into the privileged world of wealthy AngloFlorentine expatriates whose likes included the Berensons Harold Acton Janet Ross and Edith Wharton and whose petty bickering and pettier politics had a profound influence on how she spent her lifeHer marriage to Antonio Origo a wealthy landowner and sportsman was as much a reaction to this insular world as it was a surprise to her family and friends Together they purchased and singlehandedly revived an extensive arid valley in Tuscany called Val dOrcia rebuilding the farmsteads and the manor house Although clearly sympathetic to Mussolinis land use policies they sided firmly with the Allies during World War II taking considerable risks in protecting children sheltering partisans and repatriating Allied prisonersofwar to their unitsCaroline Moorehead has made extensive use of unpublished letters diaries and papers to write what will surely be considered the definitive biography of this remarkable woman She has limned a figure who was brave industrious and fiercely independent but hardly saintly What emerges is a portrait of one of the more intriguing attractive and intelligent women of the last century
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A classic of World War II here in its first American edition War in Val dOrcia is Iris Origos elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce a manor in a Tuscan nomans land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil warWith the immediacy only a diary can have the book tells how the Marchesa Origo an AngloAmerican 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 warand 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 sunFleeing 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 endsBeyond praise and above mere documentary value War in Val dOrcia belongs to the literature of humanity
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Shipped from UK please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival Good ExLibrary copy with stamps etc A good clean and sound copy in red cloth boards with a good dust jacket which retains its library cover
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Guidebook to 43 graded mostly easy walks in Tuscany Taking in the Renaissance splendour of Florence and Siena the World Heritage scenery of Val dOrcia and San Gimignano and the stunning island of Elba the routes use historical pathways used by traders pilgrims and armies and include some brief troublefree climbsdescents
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A classic of World War II here in its first American edition War in Val dOrcia is Iris Origos elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce a manor in a Tuscan nomans land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil warWith the immediacy only a diary can have the book tells how the Marchesa Origo an AngloAmerican 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 warand 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 sunFleeing 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 endsBeyond praise and above mere documentary value War in Val dOrcia belongs to the literature of humanity
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Cycling Tuscany and Umbria samples the experience and charm traveling in two of Italys most celebrated regions by bicycle The author takes you from Florence to and around Chianti through Radda Panzano and Greve via Gaiole to Siena then on south through Val DOrcia to San Quirico Montalcino and Pienza He continues southwest through Sorano and Sovana to Pitigliano a mere fifty kilometers from the sea Umbria and its opposite corner of the route is next He heads east to Orvieto Todi Spoleto Assisi and via Perugia to Lake Trasimeno At last its back to Tuscany to Arezzo Montevarchi and into the foothills of Pratomagno With the landscape so stunning he crosses Chianti once again en route back to Florence Tomas Belcik is an author of many cycling guides Cycling Tuscany and Umbria is a fullcolor travel pictorial of an amazing passage across Central Italy Containing 180 photographs with informative and entertaining captions details of stages and distances a list of accommodations and the journeyrelated GPX cycling tracks you can download the book promises to entice any intrepid or armchair traveler
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