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02261aam a2200313Mi 4500 001 DC86A8D8370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 170606s2017 enk 000 0deng d 020 $a 9781782273554 020 $a 1782273557 035 $a (OCoLC)989051826 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NZAUC $d OCLCF $d NZGPL $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-it--- 050 4 $a D811.5 O745x 2017 100 1 $a Origo, Iris, $d 1902-1988, $e author. 245 10 $a Chill in the air : $b an Italian war diary, 1939-1940 / $c Iris Origo ; introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett ; with an afterword by Katia Lysy. 264 1 $a London : $b Pushkin Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 184 pages ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Hardback. 520 $a "War in Italy in 1939 was by no means necessary, or even beneficial to the country. But in June 1940, Mussolini finally declared war on Britain and France. The awful inevitability with which Italy stumbled its way into a war for which they were ill prepared and largely unenthusiastic is documented here with grace and clarity by one of the twentieth century's great diarists. This diary, which has never been published and was recently found in Origo's archives, is the sad and gripping account of the grim absurdities that Italy and the world underwent as war became more and more unavoidable. Iris Origo, British-born and living in Italy, was ideally placed to record the events: extremely engaged with the world around her, connected to people from all areas of society (from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador to Italy), she writes of the turmoil, the danger, and the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 1939-1940, as war went from a possibility to a dreadful reality. A Chill in the Air covers the beginning of a war whose catastrophic effects are documented in the bestselling War in Val D'Orcia."--Publisher's description. 600 10 $a Origo, Iris, $d 1902-1988 $v Diaries. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Diaries. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, English. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Italy. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403021206.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC86A8D8370411E887D7D95B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search