War in Val D'Orcia (Record no. 296)
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| fixed length control field | 01571nam a2200193 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 84016465 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780879234768 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 9532727 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | D763.I82 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.5345 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Iris Origo |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | War in Val D'Orcia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | David R Godine |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 239 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 1944 and forced the Marchesa to retreat under a hot June sun.Fleeing 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 ends.Beyond praise and above mere documentary value, War in Val d'Orcia belongs to the literature of humanity. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Journals/Diaries |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History - Europe |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 940.53 ORIG | 60801 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |