As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded the lives of a proud and vibrant people forced to survive on prostitution, thievery, and a desperate belief in miracles and cures. The most popular of Lewis's twenty-seven books, Naples '44 is a landmark poetic study of the agony of wartime occupation and its ability to bring out the worst, and often the best, in human nature. In prose both heartrending and comic, Lewis describes an era of disillusionment, escapism, and hysteria in which the Allied occupiers mete out justice unfairly and fail to provide basic necessities to the populace while Neapolitan citizens accuse each other of being Nazi spies, women offer their bodies to the same Allied soldiers whose supplies they steal for sale on the black market, and angry young men organize militias to oppose "temporary" foreign rule. Yet over the chaotic din, Lewis sings intimately of the essential dignity of the Neapolitan people, whose traditions of civility, courage, and generosity of spirit shine through daily. This essential World War II book is as timely a read as ever.

Naples '44

History

LEWIS, NORMAN

Europe

Collins

Flight from a dark equator

Literature & Fiction

The Sicilian Specialist

The Sicilian specialist

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The German company

Lists commonly misspelled words and explains the rules which govern their correct form

Dictionary of Correct Spelling: A Handy Reference Guide

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Barnes&Noble

McGraw-Hill Co. [Published Date: 1988]. Hardcover, 245 pp. [From jacket flap] This book will make you angry. It is about genocide, practiced today, against helpless people?in the name of God. These "benevolent" destroyers, most of them from the United States, call themselves Christians. Since the very first sighting of Indians in the new World, the exploitation of indigenous tribal peoples by resource-hungry invaders has amounted to a persecution of the most ruthless and relentless kind, including the theft of the Indians' land, the stripping of their forests, the destruction of their cultures, and the wholesale enslavement of their populace. This exploitation continues without abatement by the evangelizing ambassadors of Christianity?the missionaries. In this powerful book, Norman Lewis takes us among the Indians of Central and Latin America, Indo-China, and the Pacific Islands. We journey in bandit country, in the deep forests and the mountains. He describes the vividness of these threatened cultures, brilliantly evoking the color and sound of the people and the landscape. With deceptive simplicity he puts straight questions to the missionaries, and the conclusions that he draws from their answers are uncompromising and demand attention. This is an outstanding new work from one of the best writers of our age.

The Missionaries: God Against the Indians

Americas

McGraw-Hill Co.

A Latin-American republic(Guatemala), rocked by revolution and violence,is caught between the opposing forces of industrial development and the ancient religion of it's Mayan ancestors.

The Volcanoes Above Us

Contemporary

Arrow Books (A Division of Random House Group)

FLIGHT FROM THE DARK EQUATOR

RANDOM HOUSE UK

In this collection, the author visits a Pacific island on which the principal relaxation is feeding the sharks, almost acquires treasure in the Bolivian Andes, comes upon a cluster of forgotten pyramids in the desert of the Sudan and journeys undaunted to the remote sierras of Spain.

To Run Across The Sea

Travel

Paints an evocative picture of the remote fishing village of Farol in Catalonia. The author documents the decline of the peasant life as it succumbed to the pressures of the outside world in the shape of the tourist industry and describes the people of Farol.

Voice of the Old Sea

Penguin??Books

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