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The farmer’s friends soon came down in droves. They were very excited and all thought they had vital information to give me. I interviewed them in turn and spent hours listening to fatuous gossip. I heard the story of the occupation of Poggio Orsini ten times over, and what the grandfather had said, and what the sister-in-law had seen. My difficulty was that these farmers didn’t know their area. Apart from their own farms, and the towns of Gravina and Irsina, where they went to market, they knew less than I did with my map. They couldn’t tell me who lived over the next ridge but one, and none of them had ever been to Genzano, five miles away. I got the most fantastic accounts of the troops in Gravina: 200 tanks, guns larger than a railway train, seven generals and so many soldiers that they couldn’t be counted. “Two thousand or thirty thousand, perhaps a hundred thousand!” Patiently I asked questions and listened too often the talk digressed on to family matters and genealogies:these people were all related.

Vladimir Penykov. Popsky's Private Army

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