Iris Origo's Italian war diary

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Iris Origo, one of the 20th Century's great diarists and biographers, documents Italy before World War Two. The newly published diary A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 (Pushkin Press) records the hopes and fears of the Italian people in the months before Mussolini entered the war. (Photo: Iris Origo in 1936. Credit: Estate of Iris Origo)