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My February stats. Proud Shoes was the highest ranked, but the tagged book is so important right now.

Beautiful writing, without any sensationalism or exaggeration, telling what it was like to live through 1943 & 44 in Italy, first far enough from the fighting to be considered a safe place to evacuate children, then literally the front lines. Fleeing at a moments notice, on foot, with 4 infants, 23 children under 10, and various adults. Dealing with partisans, fascists and Germans, all armed, all wanting to take whatever food, clothes etc.

Rome in May of 1943. Would that I can be that sanguine!

This nonfiction book, which depicts daily life in a small Italian village during WWII, is quiet but moving. And important.

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Prompt: Yellow

"It is odd how used one can become to uncertainty for the future, to a complete planlessness, even in one's most private mind. What we shall do and be, and whenever we shall, in a few month's time, have any home or possessions, or indeed our lives, is so clearly dependent on events outside our own control as to be almost restful."

Does anyone else ever "rescue" used books from sales? This is an unforgettable memoir of a woman's experiences in Tuscany during WWII, helping the partisans and caring for kids sent out of cities under attack. It was $1 at the library book sale yesterday and I wanted to rehome it like a lost puppy.