Advantages: Sharp, superb writing Disadvantages: So much tragedy in war
...his time in and around Naples from September 1943 to October 1944. He was part of a kind of police-force come liaison group and his job was counter intelligence. He found himself trying to put a stop to black marketeering and generally ducking, diving and negotiating with everyone around him in order to further the allied cause and impose stability on the region. As if Naples were not already exotic enough, the madness that accompanies war, and especially ... ...and what was what in Naples in 1944 was often a surreal process. Lewis found himself coming up against members of the Mafia who were being fast-tracked back into the country from exile by American authorities who took them too much at face value as victims of Mussolini’s regime and all round sound anti-Fascists. He interviewed a teenage German Hitlerite bent upon martyrdom. He witnessed the arrest of a criminal whose mistress had betrayed him to ...
minigrile 30.04.2004
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