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A Thread of Grace
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The Way Back to Florence
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The Vulcan and the Straits (Jox McNabb Aviation Thrillers Book 4)
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Trieste
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The Skin
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
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Love and War in the Apennines
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Altar of Resistance (World War Two #2)
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Samuel Marquis (Goodreads Author)
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Heroes in Good Company: L Company, 86th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division 1943-1945
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The Light in the Ruins
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From Sand and Ash
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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
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In Love and War
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Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #2)
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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Early One Morning
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests
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Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
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The Girl from Venice
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History
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Artemisia
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Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
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4.34 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Port of No Return
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Michelle Saftich (Goodreads Author)
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The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
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Alex Kershaw (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 6,965 ratings
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Johnny the Partisan
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Two Women
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Miracle at St. Anna
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James McBride (Goodreads Author)
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The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II
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The Wire and the Lines: Fighter pilot turned Prisoner of War (Jox McNabb Aviation Thrillers Book 5)
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Patrick Larsimont (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 343 ratings
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Primo Levi's Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy
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3.65 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Villa Triste
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Lucretia Grindle (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
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The Tuscan Child
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 100,595 ratings
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Anzio: Italy and the Battle for Rome - 1944
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Once There Was a War
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The Detour
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Andromeda Romano-Lax (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 392 ratings
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War in My Town
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E. Graziani (Goodreads Author)
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Across the River and into the Trees
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Rose of Anzio - Desire (Volume 3): A WWII Epic Love Story
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Alexa Kang (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 236 ratings
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
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This Has Happened: An Italian Family in Auschwitz
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The Parnas: A Scene from the Holocaust
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All Our Yesterdays
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Pippo's War
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Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945
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The Conformist
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The Rock Of Anzio: From Sicily To Dachau, A History Of The U.s. 45th Infantry Division
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A Bold and Dangerous Family (The Resistance #3)
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The Red Horse
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My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
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The Moon and the Bonfire
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House on the Hill
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The Beautiful Summer
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Within the Walls
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An Affair of Chances: A Submariner's Odyssey 1939-44
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The Madonna of the Mountains
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The Liberation
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Kate Furnivall (Goodreads Author)
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The Girl on the Via Flaminia
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Street Boys
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In the Wolf's Mouth
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Restoration
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Olaf Olafsson (Goodreads Author)
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With the East Surreys in Tunisia and Italy, 1942 & 1945: Fighting for Every River and Mountain
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Ciano's Diary 1937-1943
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Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943
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A British Boy in Fascist Italy
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Mussolini's Island
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At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45
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Death in Rome
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Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943-1945
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The Tuscan Secret
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Courage, My Love
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Under the Light of the Italian Moon
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L'Ultima Primavera. Il riflesso segreto dei ricordi: Romanzo
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Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II
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From These Broken Streets
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Mercury Pictures Presents
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A Bell for Adano
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Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
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The Ghosts of Rome (Rome Escape Line, #2)
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Last Train from Liguria
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Child of the Ghetto: Coming of Age in Fascist Italy: A Memoir 1926-1946
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The War in Venice
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The Italian refuge: Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
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Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
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Scaramucce sul lago Ladoga
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Train to Budapest
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Still Life
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The Children's Train
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Devotion (My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, #3)
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Warburg in Rome
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The Memory Tree
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Willful Behavior (Commissario Brunetti, #11)
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Playing with Fire
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Relative Values
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Oct 14, 2015 11:24AM
Very interesting list, Violet! Thanks for inviting me to vote, although I'm afraid I haven't read enough of them to do other than vote for the ones I've read. I was wondering, though: what about Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance. Wasn't it set partly in Italy, where the American Jewish young woman had gone to stay with her ex-pat uncle resulting in both of them being captured? I read it so long ago but, still, it and the one before are favorites.
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Is not A Farewell to Arms during WW1, not WW2?
I do love anything about Artemisia, but she's about 300 years before WWII. :)
Kristy wrote: "I do love anything about Artemisia, but she's about 300 years before WWII. :)"The book's a metafiction wherein the main story is an author recovering from the rubble of WWII, under which her Artemisia manuscript is irretrievably buried, by mentally recreating said manuscript from scratch. Artemisia may be there, but the main narrator's firmly in the midst of WWII Italy.
Thanks for the invitation to vote. But I feel very humbled when I see how little I've read off this list!
Jan wrote: "Very interesting list, Violet! Thanks for inviting me to vote, although I'm afraid I haven't read enough of them to do other than vote for the ones I've read. I was wondering, though: what about He..."I haven't read it, Jan but it sounds eligible and intriguing.
Brent wrote: "Is not A Farewell to Arms during WW1, not WW2?"Yep. Should be removed but I'm not a Librarian so can't do it. Thanks for your great list, Brent.
Aubrey wrote: "Kristy wrote: "I do love anything about Artemisia, but she's about 300 years before WWII. :)"The book's a metafiction wherein the main story is an author recovering from the rubble of WWII, under..."
Thanks for clearing that up, Aubrey. Definitely going to read this as it combines two of my deep interests.
Violet wrote: "Brent wrote: "Is not A Farewell to Arms during WW1, not WW2?"Yep. Should be removed but I'm not a Librarian so can't do it. Thanks for your great list, Brent."
Removed 'A Farwell to Arms'.
Violet wrote: "Aubrey wrote: "Kristy wrote: "I do love anything about Artemisia, but she's about 300 years before WWII. :)"The book's a metafiction wherein the main story is an author recovering from the rubble..."
My pleasure, Violet. The work needs more love.
Thanks for removing A Farewell to Arms, Audrey. I've just ordered Artemisia.
Although I am ignorant of Italian writing, and I know you love the air war stuff, I wondered if, and expect that there probably are, some Italian novels that focus on their own aces and campaigns. I know some Italian air units fought in the Battle of Britain too.
Jim wrote: "Although I am ignorant of Italian writing, and I know you love the air war stuff, I wondered if, and expect that there probably are, some Italian novels that focus on their own aces and campaigns. ..."Not that I'm aware of, Jim. It seems Italians stopped writing about the war about thirty years ago. There are more films - Mediterranean, The Night of San Lorenzo, Wild Heart and Life is Beautiful spring to mind - but Italian novelists don't seem at all interested in the war. they leave it to the Americans and Brits to write about it.
Jim wrote: "What about Captain Corelli's Mandolin?"I didn't like it much when I read it. The author is British. Also it's set in Cephallonia rather than italy though it's about Italians.
Mussolini's Italy features in The Observer with mentions of The Way Back to Florence, Early One Morning and In the Wolf's Mouth: A Novel - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016...
Relative Values The first part of the book opens in Autumn 1934 and ends at the time of the liberation of Florence in 1943. In the second part of the book, set in 1984, the grandson of the protagonist of part one pieces together what happened - and why.
Great. Thanks Phil. I've added it to the list.
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