Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist Baron's soldiers belonged to a company of battle-worn British infantrymen who had fought their way across the Sicilian plain in the summer of 1943 and reached the seaport town of Catania, in the shadow of Mt. Etna. There they commandeered a tenement building and settled down to rest...
...WINE OF ETNA (255 pp.)-Alexander Baron-Ives Washburn...
American G.I.s were not the only ones to liberate Italy; the British were there too. In his second novel, Briton Alexander Baron (From the City, from the Plough) retells in fresh detail one of World War II fiction's most popular stories: what happens when invading Allied soldiers wash off the grime of battle and go out to meet the enemy's women...
Flecked with bright, buoyant writing, The Wine of Etna remembers Catania's brief occupation by front-line infantrymen as an idyllic pause in the bloody Italian campaign. Author Baron's fast-focusing snapshot technique discovers little depth or complication in his Tommies and Italians, but he manages admirably to capture the highlights of their brief encounter...
Once again Vera Walush was hauled out and put on the stand, a bizarre figure in a fur coat, blue dress with sequins, platform shoes. Her neighbor, Bessie Baron, who used to supply her with bootleg alcohol, testified Vera had told her that she had had to put the finger on Joe and Teddy or the cops would have "run me out of business." Blowzy Vera squirmed and twisted through her story, insisted sullenly: "I know dey was da killers...