Monday, May 17, 2021

the last book I ever read (Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940, excerpt eight)

from A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 (New York Review Books Classic by Iris Origo:

JUNE 3RD

Today the papers are curiously colourless; obviously no further indication is to be given until Mussolini himself announces his intentions. But loudspeakers are being installed in the squares of every town and village.

I spend the day on the telephone, trying to obtain exit visas for my mother and my stepfather Percy, and writing last letters to England.



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