Under Avalanche
Civilian life in the path of the Allied invasion of Mainland Italy, September 1943
80th Anniversary 2023.
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Civilian life in the path of the Allied invasion of Mainland Italy, September 1943
80th Anniversary 2023.
By buying this product you can collect up to 9 reward points as a voucher of £0.18. Your reward points.
Translated by Richard Mollowen, with Cecilia Vancheri
“American soldiers go past in their rugged uniforms, steel helmets. They look at us with their innocent eyes … It seems impossible that any of them could ever drop a bomb”
Autumn 1943 : the Italian town of Eboli, directly in the path of “Operation Avalanche”. One woman’s sensitive, determined, appalled diary.
First translation into English (& by a son of one of the Allied bomber-crews) of “Diario Di Una Donna: Eboli 1943-44” (anonymous)
brings back to life an ‘ordinary woman’, yet truly remarkable diarist.
A living, direct eye-witness account – weeks and months in fear, bombardment, invasion, terror
“Classic Women’s History: from innocence, through trauma, to development of a mindset for survival”
“Terrifyingly topical”
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