Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0786714387 ISBN13: 9780786714384 Release Date: January 2005 Publisher: Da Capo Press Length: 192 Pages Weight: 0.50 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2" From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis's twenty-seven books, Naples '44 is a landmark poetic study of the agony of wartime occupation and its ability to bring out the worst, and often the best, in human nature. In prose both heartrending and comic, Lewis describes an era of disillusionment, escapism, and hysteria in which the Allied occupiers mete out justice unfairly an