A Chill in the Air

An Italian War Diary 1939–1940

Iris Origo, Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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English

Pushkin Press
24 October 2018

Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own. With piercing insight, Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more and more unavoidable. Connected to everyone, from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador, she writes of the turmoil, the danger, and the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 1939-1940.

Published for the first time in paperback,A Chill in the Airis the account of the awful inevitability of Italy's stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared.

With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the award-winning author ofThe Pike, and an afterword by Katia Lysy, granddaughter of Iris Origo, this is the gripping precursor to Origo's bestselling classic diary War in Val d'Orcia.

By: Iris Origo
Introduction by: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781782273578
ISBN 10: 1782273573
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 24 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During WWII, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her bestselling war diaries, War in Val d'Orcia, her memoir, Images and Shadows, as well as two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic, Radical and The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli.