Books in Brief: War in Val d’Orcia

War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944, by Iris Origo (Godine, 239 pp., $8.95)

“The year from June 1943 to June 1944 was one of the most disastrous in the whole of Italian history,” writes the Oxford historian Denis Mack

About the Author

M.D. Aeschliman

M.D. Aeschliman is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and author of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism (3rd English-language ed., Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2019 and French-language rev. ed., Paris: Pierre Téqui, 2020).

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War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944, by Iris Origo (Godine, 239 pp., $8.95)

“The year from June 1943 to June 1944 was one of the most disastrous in the whole of Italian history,” writes the Oxford historian Denis Mack

About the Author

M.D. Aeschliman

M.D. Aeschliman is professor emeritus of education at Boston University and author of The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism (3rd English-language ed., Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2019 and French-language rev. ed., Paris: Pierre Téqui, 2020).