Naples 44
by Norman Lewis
Naples surviving its own liberation, from the inside.
you want to understand what war does to a city through someone who was present and paying attention
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Lewis was a British intelligence officer stationed in Naples in 1943-44 as the Allied forces moved up the Italian peninsula. His diary records what he saw — a city in extreme poverty, its citizens doing whatever was necessary to survive, the occupying forces often behaving worse than the enemy they replaced. The most honest visitor dispatch from inside wartime Italy ever written. Lewis loved Naples and recorded its dignity and its desperation without sentimentality. The book that Graham Greene called one of the finest travel books ever written.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Italy • Europe
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Italy
- Themes
- Witness
