"This was the greatest invasion in this war so far – probably the greatest in human history – and the sea was crowded …"

"Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples."

"He proved to be one of the four thousand lawyers of Naples, ninety per cent of whom – surplus to the needs of the cou…"

"[...]he addresses all and sundry with old-fashioned politeness as lei."

"It is astonishing to witness the struggles of this city so shattered, so starved, so deprived of all those things tha…"

"Inexplicably no boats are allowed out, but nothing is said in the proclamation about rafts. Everyone improvises and a…"

"[...]everybody used the polite form of address lei instead of the Fascists’ forthright Roman voi."

"The facts are, as every Italian will admit, that the South is virtually a colony of the industrialised North."

"There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city."

"[...]since humanity is above partisanship, the Italians are no doubt equally kind to Germans who come to them for hel…"