ARTICLE: An Adolescent Under the Bombs, Part.II, 1943

I didn’t expect young Paolo Grassi and his diary to be half as popular, and so today, I’m bringing you a little more. We left him a week or so ago as a 10 year old in Milan on the outbreak of war in 1940.

ARTICLE: An Adolescent Under the Bombs, 1940

I intend to bring you the entries from 1945, when he ended up a baby partisan, sort of, but today, I thought I’d shoot for the middle and allow you to catch up with him at 13, during one very eventful month in 1943 which saw the invasion of Sicily, the downfall of Mussolini and the carpet bombing of the family home. Paolo started this period at Codogno, a small town of about 10,000 people some forty miles southeast of Milan…

(Foto Pessina - SkyScraperCity - Milano Sparita)

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