Frederic Wehrey
What the ‘Danish Lawrence’ Learned in Libya
Holmboe’s account of his Libyan adventure made him one of the few Western witnesses to the savagery of the Italian colonial regime’s counter-insurgency campaign, and it became a bestseller in the US and in Europe. Reviewing the book in 1936, George Orwell wrote: “Mussolini’s large body of English worshippers would do well to have a look.”
November 25, 2019