false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176684506m/644434.jpg 644434 6 <div>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&#8217;s twenty-seven books, Naples &#8217;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 and fail to provide basic necessities to the populace while Neapolitan citizens accuse each other of being Nazi spies, women offer their bodies to the same Allied soldiers whose supplies they steal for sale on the black market, and angry young men organize militias to oppose &#8220;temporary&#8221; foreign rule. Yet over the chaotic din, Lewis sings intimately of the essential dignity of the Neapolitan people, whose traditions of civility, courage, and generosity of spirit shine through daily. This essential World War II book is as timely a read as ever.</div> 833158 1978 Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy total:33|5:18|4:10|3:2|2:3|1:0| 33 142 63 11 5 0 false false Sat May 02 20:53:06 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 03:46:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 01:47:14 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 14:11:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Mon Jul 28 20:05:20 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 20:44:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 13:44:10 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 11:47:13 -0700 2009
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