Into The War by Italo Calvino
Three linked autobiographical stories follow a teenage boy in Fascist Italy at the outbreak of World War II, tracing his passage from swaggering enthusiasm to uneasy clarity. Between paramilitary drills, barracks boredom, and a surreal excursion into newly occupied Menton, he glimpses the gap between propaganda and reality, the petty looting and arbitrary cruelty that war invites. Wry, precise episodes sketch a compressed coming-of-age amid confusion, heat, and the absurdity of history.
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