Into the War By Italo Calvino, Martin L. McLaughlin (Translator) and the dangers that lurk

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Into the War By Italo Calvino, Martin L. McLaughlin (Translator) and the dangers that lurkSet in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino's own experiences as a teenager. In the title story, 'Into the War', we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to be conscripted into Mussolini's army, while in 'The Avanguardisti in Menton', Calvino and his friends take a revealingly anti climactic trip to the