What was it that amused the Tuscan commander
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In her preface, author E. Graziani says that she is "retelling [her] mother's memories. She adds: "None of the people I have written about are fictitious. They are 100% real." War in My Town recounts Bruna Pucci's World War II experiences which began on June 10, 1940 when she was 11, and when Italian head of state Benito Mussolini brought Italy into the Second World War on the side of Nazi Germany. The Pucci family, headed by a single mother, were living in poverty like the rest of their neighbours in their village, Eglio, in Tuscany, but, once the war started, their situation worsened. Food shortages became increasingly serious. Young men of the village, needed for work in agriculture, were conscripted into the military and marched away.
Worse was to come. As the Italian forces collapsed, following the Allied invasion of Italy, the Germans invaded the north. Eglio was occupied, and the villagers were forced to serve the Nazi soldiers. In September 1944, Bruna and her family were caught in a war zone between the Nazis and American liberators and saw neighbours killed in the shelling and homes and businesses reduced to rubble.