The book ends with the birth of Origo’s daughter and Origo’s decision to go to Rome to work with prisoners of war at the Italian Red Cross. Together with War in Val d’Orcia, A Chill in the Air offers an indispensable record of Italy at war as well as a thrilling story of a formidable woman’s transformation from observer to actor at a great historical turning point/5(22). · Iris Origo’s A Chill in the Air, a much shorter slim diary of March-Nov and April-July 40, not intended to appear to a public audience, is historically interesting both for Italians and other Europeans as it covers Italy’s neutral period, and what the Germans called Sitzkrieg (a German word play joke on Blitzkrieg), the French la drôle de guerre, the British the phoney or twilight war, and the Cited by: 1. · 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 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 In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, author of the classic War in Val d’Orcia, provides a vivid account of how Mussolini decided on a course of Brand: New York Review Books.
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It’s almost impossible to imagine a better time to read “ A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, –,” by Iris Origo, which is being published this week by New York Review Books. Published for the first time in paperback, A Chill in the Air is the account of the awful inevitability of Italy’s stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the award-winning author of The Pike, and an afterword by Katia Lysy, granddaughter of Iris Origo, this is the gripping precursor to Origo’s bestselling classic diary War in Val d’Orcia. A Chill In The Air An Italian War Diary By Iris Origo a chill in the air an italian war diary i am. a chill in the air an italian war diary book. not a moment too soon iris origo s war diary the new yorker. forum thread titles for chill wordreference. a.
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