- Biography, Fiction, Italian Personal narratives, Personal narratives, Italian
"Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war.
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Bleak, grave, overwhelming and prestige.
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- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Curzio Malaparte
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 437
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press, A. Mondadori, Denoel
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English, French, Dutch, Italian
- ISBN
- 9782070362370
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