Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth

Norman Lewis arrived in Naples as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American Fifth Army. By 1944 the city's inhabitants were so destitute that all the tropical fish in the aquarium had been devoured, and numbers of respectable women had been driven to prostitution. The Mafia gradually became so indispensable to the occupying forces that it succeeded in regaining its former power. Despite the cruelty and suffering he encountered, Norman Lewis writes in the diary, "A year among Italians has converted me to such an admiration for their humanity and culture that were I given the chance to be born again, Italy would be the country of my choice."

Published 1995.

Ex library copy. Binding of book is intact. Stickers, some shelfwear, creasing and foxing on covers of book. Some tanning and foxing on edges of book. Stamp on top edge of book. Annotations in pen stamp and library card slip pasted on front endpaper. Sticker on board of back cover. Slight foxing and few waterstains on endpapers. Slight foxing on certain pages, otherwise in good condition.