The author, born in London but brought up in Rome, recalls the years of his boyhood and early youth in a city caught up in a war Italy was doomed to lose, invaded by the Germans and then liberated by the Allies (Americans and British in the main). From the early days of the war when Rome suffered from a scarcity of food and some bombing, to the indignity of being cruelly controlled by its former allies, the Germans, to the early '50s which saw Italy's...
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