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A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
$24.99 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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 In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, ...Show more
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong...I'd like her to be a little 'foreign' Iris Origo was born in 1902 and spent her youth in the ancestral estate on Long Island and in her grandfather's castle in Ireland. Her father died tragically when she was eight, and she continued her peripatetic lif ...Show more
The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli by Iris Origo
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Teresa Guiccioli was 19 years old and married to a jealous and violent husband when she became Byron's mistress in 1819. Incorporating 116 letters from Byron to Teresa, and some of her answers to him, Iris Origo's fascinating account of Byron's Italian years not only follows the lovers' five-year affair ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more
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