Person · Allied colleague
Eric Williams
The section’s best Italian speaker.
In the book
Sent as ‘a solitary exile’ to run security in Nola, where the Feast of the Lily brings the town — and the army’s telephone lines — to a standstill; his complaints supply one of the book’s set-piece feast stories.
Appears in 2 diary entries.
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October 6 1943Arriving in a ruined, waterless Naples, the section settles into a grand requisitioned palazzo on the Riviera di Chiaia.
best Italian speaker, sent as a solitary exile to Nola
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June 27 1944A colleague describes a revived, medieval-style flagellant procession at Guardia Sanframondi; two more feast stories follow — Nola's Feast of the Lily disrupting army telephone lines, and a trip to Amalfi for the thrice-yearly 'manna' relic of St Andrew.
describes his frustrations with the Feast of the Lily disrupting telephone lines at Nola
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