War in Val d'OrciaWar in Val d'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escaped Allied prisoners of war, and stand up to the Germans, who occupied La Foce in 1944 and forced the Origos to retreat under a hot June sun. It is a