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| Title | : | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
| Author | : | Robert Crichton |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | by Carroll & Graf Publishers (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. War. World War II |
Robert Crichton
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 4.15 | 804 Users | 84 Reviews
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After visiting some of the hilltowns in Tuscany, I wondered what it would have been like to live through WWII there. Based on a true story and the author 's personal experience, the book clearly told the story of one small village and their ordeal. It was light and humorous, insightful and introspective, and the narrator was excellent! In my mind I placed the book in Montepulciano, the heart of wine making country and a town with many of the same characteristics as the one in the book. The characterization of the townspeople was spot on; they came alive, as did their German occupiers.Quite a gem!
From The Independent: They thus missed the book's remarkable strengths: its versatile depiction of characters, its unpretentious but subtle prose. Based on the true story of an Italian village that hid its wine from occupying German forces, and probably derived from Crichton's own experiences as an American infantryman fighting his way up Italy, The Secret of Santa Vittoria painted a rich tableau of foreign life for notoriously parochial American readers. Comic, occasionally mawkish, the novel can still veer sharply away from excessive sentimentality. Having bamboozled the dozy occupying Germans, for example, the village's inhabitants find a different treatment in store when a crack Wehrmacht unit retreats through their town:
They never looked at us. They moved through us with the assurance of men who know that if so much as one shot was fired at them by some Renaissance fighter, they would burn the town to the ground.
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| Original Title: | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
| ISBN: | 0881842672 (ISBN13: 9780881842678) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.15 From 804 Users | 84 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Loved, loved, loved this book. Storytelling at it's best.A great book. Best novel I've read in a long time. There's plenty of humor early on, but as the end comes (and the SS) the fun ends. It rings true from beginning to end.
A charming read. Have been recommending it to my wine loving friends.
I have read this a few times and have always enjoyed the tale. Great character development, a great plot and well written.
I first read this book in high school back in the early 70s. I remembered really enjoying it, and I am glad I re-read this again!
I read this book for the Wine Store Book Club I moderate for my library. I would not have read it otherwise, in spite of the fact that I chose the book as a selection for the club. The plot sounded amusing. A small wine-making village in the hills of Italy tries to hide close to one million bottles of wine from the occupying Nazis. Amusing isn't quite the word I used once I finished the book. The story takes place near the end of WWII, just after Mussolini is executed. The Germans are occupying
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