War in Val D'Orcia: 1943-1944: A Diary Tapa dura - 1984

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Thorndike Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Thorndike Press, 1984. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1984. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - VeryGood. Katherine Potter.. 5.75"x8.75"x1.25". 419 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Large Print. Pictorial hardboards. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slightly toned. Pencil ghosts from library. No other markings. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Intro by Denis Mack Smith. "A classic of World War II, here in its first American edition. War in Val d'Orcia is Iris Origo's 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. With the immediacy only a diary can have, the book tells how the Marchesa Origo, an Anglo-American 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 war-and somehow stand up to the Germans, who in dread due course occupied La Foce in… Leer más