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Naples 44
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Author : Norman Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1978
Naples 44 written by Norman Lewis and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Contains primary source material.
Naples 44
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Author : Norman Lewis
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Naples 44 written by Norman Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Soldiers categories.
Naples 44
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Author : Norman Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Isis Large Print Books
Release Date : 1995
Naples 44 written by Norman Lewis and has been published by Isis Large Print Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Street Boys
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Author : Lorenzo Carcaterra
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2002-08-20
Street Boys written by Lorenzo Carcaterra and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-20 with Fiction categories.
Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience. It’s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city can’t belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one. No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Nazis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city—or die trying. There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen-year-old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self-confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle-aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen-year-old daughter, who helps her father regain his self-respect— and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comrades—with no choice but to aid the street boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Nazi commander shamed by his own sadistic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves. In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterra’s trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page-turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all—and as a singular addition to the novels about World War II.
The Wedding Officer
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Author : Anthony Capella
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-04
The Wedding Officer written by Anthony Capella and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with Fiction categories.
Twenty-two-year-old James Gould arrives in Occupied Naples in 1943, where his duties include dissuading Allied soldiers from marrying their beautiful Italian girlfriends, and his diet includes little more than spam fritters and warmed-up rations. The girls of Naples, however, soon arrange for a beautiful young country girl to join his staff as a cook. Under the twin influences of Italian food and Italian passion, James has only just realised that his heart is more important than his orders, when an eruption of Vesuvius sets in motion a series of epic events that will change their lives for ever.
Naples 44
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Author : Norman Lewis
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Naples 44 written by Norman Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
La presse américaine, qui a le goût des hiérarchies bien arrêtées, a récemment classé Naples 44 parmi les " dix meilleurs livres consacrés à la dernière guerre mondiale ". Admettons. D'autant que Graham Greene, qui n'avait pas toujours l'admiration facile, n'hésitait pas à considérer Norman Lewis (né en 1908 et grand bourlingueur sous le ciel) comme " l'un des meilleurs écrivains du siècle ". Un officier de l'armée britannique découvre Naples à la fin de l'été 44, quand la ville enfin libérée n'a plus à montrer au monde que sa misère... Naples va pieds nus. Naples mendie, chaparde, trafique, fait la pute - mais se moque princièrement du monde, et offre à ses libérateurs une leçon de vie qui laisse pantois.
Naples 44
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Author : Norman Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2005-01-03
Naples 44 written by Norman Lewis and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-03 with History categories.
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's twenty-seven books, Naples '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 "temporary" 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.
Voices Of The Old Sea
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Author : Norman Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Release Date : 2013
Voices Of The Old Sea written by Norman Lewis and has been published by Eland Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Catalonia (Spain) categories.
This book describes the author's three successive summers in Farol, Catalonia. With affection and sorrow he records the villagers' struggle to sustain their precarious existence and to defend it against the enticements of a tourist development.
Naples In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Girolamo Imbruglia
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-28
Naples In The Eighteenth Century written by Girolamo Imbruglia and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-28 with History categories.
In 1734 the kingdom of Naples became an independent monarchy, but in 1799 a Jacobin revolution transformed it briefly into a republic. In these few but intense decades of independence all the great problems of the age of the Enlightenment became apparent: attacks on feudalism and on the power of the Catholic Church, the struggle for a modern economy, and aspirations to change the administrative machinery and the judicial system. Yet Naples was also the city visited by Winckelmann and Goethe, the city of Sir William Hamilton, of the study of Pompeii and Herculanum, and of the greatest musicians of the age. This collection of essays addresses a range of issues in the city's political and cultural history, and demonstrates the city's importance in shaping the modern, enlightened culture of Europe.
Delirious Naples
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Author : Pellegrino D'Acierno
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2018-12-11
Delirious Naples written by Pellegrino D'Acierno and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with Social Science categories.
This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously Neapolitan” dance continues.