Not a reportage from within Nazi Germany, but instead a secret memoir of a reporter who becomes increasingly more and more disillusioned with Fascist Italy. It’s hard to place a modern morality on Malaparte’s position in this book except to say he’s risking everything to write this book. It was published in 1944, and he smuggled it on his body repeatedly through his travels around the warfront. He also does spend time in an Italian prison afterward. So his closeness to the information (there’s a […]