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Agnes Browne ragazza
Ebbene, questo libro e' un biglietto di sola andata per l'Irlanda di qualche decennio fa, soprattutto per chi, come me, non vi ha mai messo piede. Insieme ad Agnes, ci ritroviamo nel Jarro, a Dublino. Questo e' romanzo corale: Agnes dovrebbe esserne la protagonista e sicuramnete e' quella che "ha piu' scene" ma devo ammettere che spesso e' stata messa in ombra, almeno per me, dalla sua migliore amica Marion. E poi ci sono i genitori, la sorella Dolly, il prete, le amiche (tutte con dei nomignoli affettuosamente bizzarri e offensivi) le donne del mercato, fra cui Nelly... insomma, un ritratto colorato, festivo, volgare, allegro, drammatico di un popolo forte e al contempo fragile, di gente che crede ancora nelle fate e che sa come fare a sorridere e a ridere anche di fronte alla tragedia.
Un libro che si legge bene, e che a volte fa sorridere, nonostante non sia affatto comico perche' ti butta dentro alla vita nel proletariato di Dublino e ci sono varie storie, se non proprio tristi, sicuramente real
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Beschreibung des Verlags
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Beschreibung des Verlags
A history of the British Army unit’s deployment to and defense of a group of islands between Greece and Turkey during World War II.
Shortly after the invasion of Sicily, in order to distract German attention from the Italian campaign, Churchill ordered the occupation of the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean.
The Long Range Desert Group, retraining in Lebanon, were now part of Raiding Forces, Middle East, along with the Special Boat Service and No 30 Commando. In support of 3,000 regulars in 234 Brigade, the LRDG landed covertly on Leros establishing observation posts, reporting movement of enemy shipping and aircraft.
In October the LRDG were ordered to assault the island of Levitha, losing forty highly skilled men killed or captured. The Germans invaded Leros with overwhelming force on 12 November 1943, five days later the battle was over. While many British troops were captured most of the LRDG and SBS escaped. Their individual stories make for enthralling reading.
A measure of the intensity of the fighting is the fact that the LRDG lost more men in three months in the Aegean than in three years in the desert operating behind enemy lines.
The author, an acknowledged expert on the LRDG uses official sources, both British and German, and indi