Naples '44: A Wartime Diary . SYNOPSIS.

An Italian/English documentary film based upon it, Napoli '44/Naples '44, directed by Francesco Patierno and narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, premiered at the Rome International Film Festival in October 2016. In late 1943 Norman Lewis was posted by the British Intelligence Corps to newly liberated Naples. Naples ‘44 is a diary set in the aftermath of the Allied liberation of Southern Italy.

A portrait of the city at the end of the Second World War, using British intelligence operative Norman … In late 1943 Norman Lewis was posted by the British Intelligence Corps to newly liberated Naples. BBC4 | Monday, 2 December 2019 | 01:00. Naples '44 by Norman Lewis Norman Lewis was one of the great travel writers. Monday, 2 December 2019 01:00 BBC4 Sunday, 26 November 2017 23:00 BBC4. Where to watch. Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download. Watch Naples '44: A Wartime Diary live on the web . Naples '44: A Wartime Diary. Find out when Naples '44 is on TV. Naples '44 is a military memoir of World War II written by the British travel writer and novelist Norman Lewis that was first published in 1978.. Lewis had a great affinity for Italy which enhances his account of the struggle of a people in abject poverty. Naples '44 was first published by William Collins in 1978 and republished as a paperback by Eland Books in 1983. Director: Francesco Patierno.

It is in the form of a diary that was kept by Lewis while he was a sergeant in the Field Security Service of the British Army Intelligence Corps in southern Italy from September 1943 to October 1944.. Naples ’44 – part 2 January 26, 2020 in Flotsam and Jetsam | Permalink In my last post I wrote – probably somewhat unexpectedly – about Norman Lewis’s diary of his time working for British Army Intelligence in southern Italy during the Second World War, the which was published at the end of the 70s under the title – “ Napoli ’44 “. The author recounts the story, shares the facts as he understood them and like a modern day animal behaviourist, an Attenborough, commentates on the antics and realities of life on our planet.

He arrived to witness a city devastated by fascism, bombings, Nazi occupation and the Allied invasion.