Four Days of Naples, Aubrey Menen
Four Days of Naples, Aubrey Menen
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Four Days of Naples

Author: Aubrey Menen

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

In September 1943, Naples lay devastated by incessant bombardment from Allied planes. The city, under an iron occupation by the Germans, was without food. During the bombardment, the famed scugnizzi, the street boys of Naples, grew increasingly exasperated by the passiveness of their elders. Known for their daring, verve, and enterprise, the boys staged an incredible revolt against the Germans on September 28, 1943. Dragging furniture into the roadways, they built barricades and shot at the enemy with stolen guns, inspiring many adults and Italian army deserters to join their ranks. Three days and hundreds of deaths later, the Germans left the city for good.Author Aubrey Menen, who heard the story of those historic four days from the scugnizzi themselves in 1948, here recreates the battle street by street, house by house.

About Aubrey Menen

Aubrey Menen was born Salvatore Aubrey Clarence Menen in 1912 in London. After attending University College in London, he held a variety of jobs until World War II began, when he organized pro-Allied radio broadcasts in India. After the war, he returned to London to work in advertising, but the success of his first novel, The Prevalence of Witches, encouraged him to write full-time. He wrote several novels exploring the nature of nationalism and the cultural contrast between his Irish-Indian ancestry and his British upbringing. Menen died in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, in 1989.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on April 29, 2019

Aubrey Menen's Four Days of Naples is a good read about an exciting moment in history, when the youth of Naples arose against the Nazi occupation of their city -- and won! The only problem with this book is that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is blurred. The book is classified as non......more

Goodreads review by Grant on January 02, 2014

A fascinating popular history of the Naples uprising against the Germans. Menen conducted extensive interviews to tell both sides of the story, though several of his sources remain anonymous due to confessions of war crimes. The narrative penetrates the fog of war while at the same time emphasizing......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on May 23, 2024

Fascinating tale of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation of Naples.......more

Goodreads review by John on November 11, 2008

This a heart-warming story of a hard-luck city that was over-run from both sides during the WWII. An informal history written in a simple style, it traces the story of the street children that led the effort to stop the Germans from destroying the city as they retreated from the advancing Americans.......more

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