difesa

Updated: June 2, 2025

I strode up and down in the semi-darkness, trying to keep warm and determined, whatever happened, not to carry those wretched bags myself, when suddenly a figure rose out of the gloom a military figure of youthful aspect and diminutive size, armed to the teeth. "A cold night," I ventured. "Do you know, Sir, that you are in the war-zone the zona di difesa?"

Norman Douglas - Alone