War In Val D'Orcia

The author, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner, found herself raising a family during the civil war and foreign invasion in the remote Tuscan cou... » 

The author, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner, found herself raising a family during the civil war and foreign invasion in the remote Tuscan countryside. This diary records her concerns to keep her household and sixty orphans together and save a rural community from annihilation. «