Peace and War - Growing Up in Fascist Italy

Anyone who has read Eric Newby's marvellous personal account of Love and War in the Apennines will enjoy this book. It is the other side of the story, as told by the woman he fell in love with while he was hiding from the Germans in Italy. But Wanda Newby's memoirs of her childhood and the war years in Italy are more than just a complement to her husband's story. In a straightforward and unpretentious style, they capture the mood of day-to-day life first in a Slovenian village in the limestone country above Trieste, and then in another village in the flat plains of the Po near Parma....