Naples ’44

Place · Town

Pompeii

Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, it was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

In the book

Invoked again and again as the template for catastrophe: a soldier gives Lewis a scrap of a Pompeii Madonna’s mantle as a charm, and during the eruption he sees people frozen in the ash in the postures of the bodies at Pompeii.

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Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. September 11 1943
    HQ moves to a tranquil rural setting, but there's a creeping sense that the Fifth Army is unprepared and undefended.

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