See Naples
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Douglas Allanbrook.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Allanbrook, Douglas; Americans -- Italy -- History -- 20th century; Americans -- Italy -- Naples; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy; Naples (Italy) -- Social life and customs; Naples (Italy) -- History -- 1945-; Italy -- History -- Allied occupation, 1943-1947
Description: See Naples: A Memoir begins in a villa high above the gorgeous ruin of Naples four years after World War II. Composer Douglas Allanbrook is passionately involved with Laura, a ringer for Bette Davis, but he is in love with Naples, with the opera at San Carlo, with the inflections and rhetoric of the scugnizzi, street actors in this most dramatic of cities.

Allanbrook spent from 1943 to 1945 in Italy with a U.S. infantry division that took seventy-five percent casualties, shuffling among land mines, reading maps in command posts by lamplight, and watching helplessly as his friends were killed. In 1949 he returned to Naples, where he cured himself of the war and married Candida, with whom he returned to America to make a family and a life.
Notes: "A Peter Davison book."