At last the invasion has begun...

Una Gioncada Haldane

Tyrone-native living in Italy during Mussolini's regime

Ye Gods, what a birthday present! At last the invasion has begun […] I’m so excited that I don’t know what to do with myself […] I feel like shouting it down from my balcony. What a sensation it would make and how swiftly I’d be carried away to a concentration camp.