ITALY: Hope in Sardinia

Sardinia, which is like nowhere. Sardinia, which has no history, no date, no race, no offering. They say neither Romans nor Phoenicians, Greeks nor Arabs ever subdued Sardinia. It lies outside; outside the circuit of civilization.. —D. H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia

And so it was until the Yanks came. Midway through World War II, General Eisenhower's forces crossed from North Africa to occupy the bald, sirocco-scorched island of Sardinia (pop. 950,000) as a bomber base for the invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal...

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