Naples '44

Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth is a military memoir of the Second World War written by the British travel writer and novelist Norman Lewis that was first published in 1978.

The book is in the form of a diary that was kept by Lewis while he was a sergeant in the Field Security Service of the British Army Intelligence Corps in southern Italy from September 1943 to October 1944.

The military historian Sir John Keegan has described it, together with George MacDonald Fraser’s Quartered Safe Out Here, as "one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War".

[1] Lewis's memoir is notable for its depiction of the wartime suffering endured by the civilian population of the city of Naples.

His harrowing and moving account of a group of blind girl orphans being refused food in a restaurant in the city has been referenced by several other authors: The experience changed my outlook.