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The Italian Prisoner

Author : Elisa M. Speranza
Publisher : Burgundy Bend Press
ISBN 13 : 1662924143
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Prisoner written by Elisa M. Speranza and published by Burgundy Bend Press. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to marry a local boy and start a family. But she secretly dreams of being more like her fiercely independent widowed godmother. Behind her parents’ back, Rose lands a job at the shipyard, where she feels free and important for the first time in her life. When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious best friend, Marie, join the group. There, Rose falls for Sal, a handsome and intelligent POW. Italy has switched sides in the war, so the POWs are allowed out to socialize, giving Rose and Sal a chance to grow closer. When Rose gets a promotion at work, she must make an agonizing choice: follow a traditional path like Marie or keep working after the war and live on her own terms. Inspired by little-known historical events and set to a swing-era soundtrack, The Italian Prisoner is an engrossing story of wartime love, family secrets, and a young woman’s struggle to chart her own course at an inflection point in American history. Book Review 1: “The repercussions of WWII are lovingly rendered through one woman’s story, with an endearing cast of characters who all feel like family by the end.”—LALITA TADEMY, New York Times best-selling author of Oprah’s Book Club pick Cane River, Red River, and Citizens Creek Book Review 2: "… an essential contribution to the treasure trove of Italian American fiction and a transporting page-turner. I want everyone in my family to meet Rose, our inspiring heroine, whose extraordinary story will stay with me for a long time." –CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI, author of Leading Men Book Review 3: “… intimate historical fiction at its page-turning best.”—PAMELA ROTNER SAKAMOTO, author of Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds Book Review 4: “… a compelling mix of freshness and familiarity, using a female rites-of-passage narrative to transport readers to 1940s New Orleans and to bring alive the timeless challenges of living in a nation at war.”—ANN HAGEDORN, award-winning author of Beyond the River, Savage Peace, Sleeper Agent and more Book Review 5: “… a refreshing addition to the historical women’s fiction bookshelf.”—KAIA ALDERSON, author of Sisters in Arms Book Review 6: “A dazzling World War II love story set in New Orleans that will pull you in from the very first paragraph.”—JENNIFER SMITH TURNER, award-winning author of Child Bride, named the Best eBook of 2020 by the Black Caucus of The American Library Association Book Review 7: “… a beautiful book that will touch anyone who ever dared want more out of life.” —CHARLES FORREST JONES, author of The Illusion of Simple Book Review 8: "The author's keen eye for the history of those years are evident as delightful details of the city at war abound.”—BRIAN ALTOBELLO, author of Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans Book Review 9: “With true-to-life family dynamics and the drama of first love, the author invites us to take a passeggiata alongside her heroine Rose.”—SHAUNNA J. EDWARDS, co-author of The Thread Collectors Book Review 10: “… compelling, atmospheric, and refined. A truly magnificent read.” —DIANNE C. BRALEY, author of The Silence in the Sound

Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania

Author : Flavio G. Conti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479983
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania written by Flavio G. Conti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were detained in the United States. When Italy signed an armistice with the Allies in September 1943, most of these soldiers agreed to swear allegiance to the United States and to collaborate in the fight against Germany. At the Letterkenny Army Depot, located near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, more than 1,200 Italian soldiers were detained as co-operators. They arrived in May 1944 to form the 321st Italian Quartermaster Battalion and remained until October 1945. As detainees, the soldiers helped to order, stock, repair, and ship military goods, munitions and equipment to the Pacific and European Theaters of war. Through such labor, they lent their collective energy to the massive home front endeavor to defeat the Axis Powers. The prisoners also helped to construct the depot itself, building roads, sidewalks, and fences, along with individual buildings such as an assembly hall, amphitheater, swimming pool, and a chapel and bell tower. The latter of these two constructions still exist, and together with the assembly hall, bear eloquent testimony to the Italian POW experience. For their work the Italian co-operators received a very modest, regular salary, and they experienced more freedom than regular POWs. In their spare time, they often had liberty to leave the post in groups that American soldiers chaperoned. Additionally, they frequently received or visited large entourages of Italian Americans from the Mid-Atlantic region who were eager to comfort their erstwhile countrymen. The story of these Italian soldiers detained at Letterkenny has never before been told. Now, however, oral histories from surviving POWs, memoirs generously donated by family members of ex-prisoners, and the rich information newly available from archival material in Italy, aided by material found in the U.S., have made it possible to reconstruct this experience in full. All of this historical documentation has also allowed the authors to tell fascinating individual stories from the moment when many POWs were captured to their return to Italy and beyond. More than seventy years since the end of World War II, family members of ex-POWs in both the United States and Italy still enjoy the positive legacy of this encounter.

The Italian's Pregnant Prisoner

Author : Maisey Yates
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1489247459
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Italian's Pregnant Prisoner written by Maisey Yates and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant...and at his mercy! Charlotte Adair spent her life locked away in a tower. Her father's death frees her to find the one man she's ever loved...only to discover billionaire Rafe Costa is now blind, believes she betrayed him, and is bent on a vengeful seduction! Rafe is shocked to realise that Charlotte is a virgin, but weeks after their scorching encounter, he learns she's pregnant – with twins! To claim his heirs, Rafe steals Charlotte away to his castle, but she is a far from biddable prisoner. She is irresistible, defiant, and Rafe must seduce her into compliance!

The Italian Prisoner

Author : Susan Temby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Prisoner written by Susan Temby and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prisoner of the Vatican

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547347162
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of the Vatican written by David I. Kertzer and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-02-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize winner’s “fascinating” account of the political battles that led to the end of the Papal States (Entertainment Weekly). From a National Book Award–nominated author, this absorbing history chronicles the birth of modern Italy and the clandestine politics behind the Vatican’s last stand in the battle between the church and the newly created Italian state. When Italy’s armies seized the Holy City and claimed it for the Italian capital, Pope Pius IX, outraged, retreated to the Vatican and declared himself a prisoner, calling on foreign powers to force the Italians out of Rome. The action set in motion decades of political intrigue that hinged on such fascinating characters as Garibaldi, King Viktor Emmanuel, Napoleon III, and Chancellor Bismarck. Drawing on a wealth of secret documents long buried in the Vatican archives, David I. Kertzer reveals a fascinating story of outrageous accusations, mutual denunciations, and secret dealings that will leave readers hard-pressed to ever think of Italy, or the Vatican, in the same way again. “A rousing tale of clerical skullduggery and topsy-turvy politics, laced with plenty of cross-border intrigue.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

I Loved an Italian Prisoner of War

Author : Colleen Camarda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646396347
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book I Loved an Italian Prisoner of War written by Colleen Camarda and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Regard for the Truth: Friendship and Kindness. Tragedy and Injustice. Rowville's Italian Prisoners of War.

Author : Darren Arnott
Publisher : Bookpod
ISBN 13 : 9780648679608
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book No Regard for the Truth: Friendship and Kindness. Tragedy and Injustice. Rowville's Italian Prisoners of War. written by Darren Arnott and published by Bookpod. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Saturday evening, the commandant of the Rowville internment camp, Captain Waterston, shot and killed a prisoner, Rodolfo Bartoli, who he claims was attempting to escape. Rodolfo, a young prisoner from Florence, had met a local girl whom he was hoping to marry one day.

Orkney's Italian Chapel

Author : Philip Paris
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845026144
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Orkney's Italian Chapel written by Philip Paris and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orkney's Italian Chapel was built by Italian POWs held on the island during the Second World War. In the sixty-five years since it was built it has become an enduring symbol of peace and hope around the world. The story of who built the chapel and how it came into existence and survived against all the odds is both fascinating and inspiring. Author Philip Paris's extensive research into the creation of the Italian Chapel has uncovered many new facts, and this comprehensive new book is the definitive account of the chapel and those who built it. It is a book that has waited to be written for sixty-five years.

On American Soil

Author : Jack Hamann
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565123948
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book On American Soil written by Jack Hamann and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.

Italian Prisoners of War and the Enemy's Barbarity

Author : ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Italian Prisoners of War and the Enemy's Barbarity written by ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR. and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking in Their Boots

Author : Joanne Tapiolas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646976228
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book Walking in Their Boots written by Joanne Tapiolas and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1500 Italian prisoners of war, captured in the battlefields of north Africa, came to Queensland during World War 2.The Italians provided a much-needed workforce for farmers throughout nine south-east Queensland districts. Additionally, 250 Italians worked at the Commonwealth Vegetable Farm on the Burdekin River, to supply fresh produce to the north¿s military forces.Queensland farming families welcomed the Italians onto their farms and into their homes. A temporary refrain from life behind barbwire fences, friendships were forged and lasting memories remain clear over seven decades later.The Italian prisoners of war left their footprints in the landscape and in the memories of Queenslanders. ¿Walking in their Boots¿ traces the history of Italian prisoners of war in Queensland and tells the stories of a time when POWs worked on our Queensland farms.

The Italian Chapel

Author : Philip Paris
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845024117
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Italian Chapel written by Philip Paris and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orkney 1942. Forbidden lovers, divided by war, united by a secret act of creation. Amid the turmoil of the Second World War, a group of Italian prisoners is sent to the remote Orkney island of Lamb Holm. In the freezing conditions, hunger and untold hardships of Camp 60, this ragtag band must work together to survive. Domenico, a talented artist, is among them. He inspires his comrades to create a symbol of peace during these dark days of war, and out of driftwood and scrap they build the Italian chapel: a beacon of hope and beauty in a world ravaged by war. The chapel soon becomes a place of love, too. When Giuseppe, another POW, falls for local woman Fiona, he decides to hide a token of his love there . . . the secret of which is unveiled for the first time in The Italian Chapel. Based on an incredible true story, this heartbreaking and inspiring tale tells of forbidden passion, lifelong friendships and the triumph of the human spirit.

Sacrifice on the Steppe

Author : Hope Hamilton
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612000029
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Sacrifice on the Steppe written by Hope Hamilton and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When GermanyÕs Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its allied armiesÑthe Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter-offensive which commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war. However, the historical record also makes clear that one allied unit held out to the very end, fighting to stem the tideÑthe Italian Alpine Corps. As a result of MussoliniÕs disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany, by the fall of 1942, 227,000 soldiers of the Italian Eighth Army were deployed on a 270km front along the Don River to protect the left flank of German troops intent on capturing Stalingrad. Sixty thousand of these were alpini, elite Italian mountain troops. When the Don front collapsed under Soviet hammerblows, it was the Alpine Corps that continued to hold out until it was completely isolated, and which then tried to fight its way out through both Russian encirclement and ÒGeneral Winter,Ó to rejoin the rest of the Axis front. Only one of the three alpine divisions was able to emerge from the Russian encirclement with survivors. In the all-sides battle across the snowy steppe, thousands were killed and wounded, and even more were captured. By the summer of 1946, 10,000 survivors returned to Italy from Russian POW camps. This tragic story is complex and unsettling, but most of all it is a human story. Mussolini sent thousands of poorly equipped soldiers to a country far from their homeland, on a mission to wage war with an unclear mandate against a people who were not their enemies. Raw courage and endurance blend with human suffering, desperation and altruism in the epic saga of this withdrawal from the Don lines, including the demise of thousands and survival of the few. Hope Hamilton, fluent in Italian and having spent many years in Italy, has drawn on many interviews with survivors, as well as massive research, in order to provide this first full English-language account of one of World War IIÕs legendary stands against great odds.

Letters from Prison

Author : Antonio Gramsci
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231075541
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Prison written by Antonio Gramsci and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Terry Eagleton in the Guardian as "definitive," this is the only complete and authoritative edition of Antonio Gramsci's deeply personal and vivid prison letters.

I Loved an Italian Prisoner of War: a True Story

Author : Colleen Camarda & Michelle Hoctor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book I Loved an Italian Prisoner of War: a True Story written by Colleen Camarda & Michelle Hoctor and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Camp Ogden and the Italian Prisoner of War Experience

Author : Gary A. Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Camp Ogden and the Italian Prisoner of War Experience written by Gary A. Frank and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stalin's Italian Prisoners of War

Author : Maria Teresa Giusti
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863562
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Stalin's Italian Prisoners of War written by Maria Teresa Giusti and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942-43. On 230.000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100.000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The study examines Italian war crimes against the Soviet civilian population and describes the particularly grim fate of the thousands of Italian military internees who after the 8 September 1943 Armistice had been sent to Germany and were subsequently captured by the Soviet army to be deported to the USSR. The book presents everyday life and death in the Soviet prisoner camps and explains the particularly high mortality among Italian prisoners. Giusti explores how well the system of prisoner labor, personally supervised by Stalin, was planned, starting in 1943. A special focus of the study is antifascist propaganda among prisoners and the infiltration of the Soviet security agencies in the camps. Stalin was keen to create a new cohort of supporters through the mass political reeducation of war prisoners, especially middle-class intellectuals and military élite. The book ends with the laborious diplomatic talks in 1946 and 1947 between USSR, Italy, and the Holy See for the repatriation of the surviving prisoners.