Mémoires de guerre

Arezzo (Tuscany)

Foreword. Women’s stories: war diaries from Pieve Santo Stefano

Patrizia GABRIELLI

The following pages offer a few passages taken from diaries or memoirs written by Tosca Ciampelli, Nanda Belli, Maria Alemanno, Perla Cacciaguerra, Margherita Biagini and Marisa Corsellini, six women who lived through the tragic experiences of the Second World War in Tuscany, the first two in Badia Prataglia in the province of Arezzo, the others in Florence.

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We Will Win... Pah!!!

Perla CACCIAGUERRA

Perla Cacciaguerra was born in Florence in 1926 and graduated from high school. The typed diary arrived at the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale of Pieve Santo Stefano on the 13th November 1997; the text was published in 2000 (P. Cacciaguerra, VINCEREMO... MAH!!! Diario di guerra 4 Ottobre 1943 – 4 Maggio 1945, Firenze, Ibiskos Editrice, 2000).

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