Trapped in Tuscany
Trapped in Tuscany

Author: Tullio Bruno Bertini

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9780937832813

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This is a true account of the events that occurred in Tullio Bruno Bertini's life between 1939 and 1946. Tullio was born in Boston in 1930. He arrived in Italy with his mother and father on August 1, 1939 after completing the third grade. As a nine year old boy Tullio was in a different culture and found himself trapped in Italy. Even though he was forced to live under Fascist nazi rule, he managed to attend an Italian school, become involved in village life and even learn a new language. In September 1944, he and his family were liberated by the 92nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Fifth Army which was comprised entirely of black soldiers.

Trapped in Tuscany, Liberated by the Buffalo Soliders
Trapped in Tuscany, Liberated by the Buffalo Soliders

Author: Tullio Bruno Bertini

Publisher: Branden Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780937832356

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This is a true account of the events that occurred in Tullio Bruno Bertini's life between 1939 and 1946. Tullio was born in Boston in 1930. He arrived in Italy with his mother and father on August 1, 1939 after completing the third grade. As a nine year old boy Tullio was in a different culture and found himself trapped in Italy. Even though he was forced to live under Fascist nazi rule, he managed to attend an Italian school, become involved in village life and even learn a new language. In September 1944, he and his family were liberated by the 92nd Infantry Division of the U.S. Fifth Army which was comprised entirely of black soldiers.

Cinderfella & the Slam Dunk Contest
Cinderfella & the Slam Dunk Contest

Author: Elizabeth Burton

Publisher: Branden Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0828319669

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With the help of his fairy godfather Michael Jordan, Cinderfella regrets his mistreatment of his stepbrothers and gets to attend and win the big Slam Dunk Contest.

This Has Happened
This Has Happened

Author: Piera Sonnino

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1466887044

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Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in 2005 in Italy and first published in English in 2006, this poignant and extraordinarily well-written account is strikingly accurate in bringing to life the methodical and relentless erosion of the freedoms and human dignity of the Italian Jews, from Mussolini's racial laws of 1938 to the institutionalized horror of Auschwitz. Through Sonnino's words, memory has the power to disarm these unspeakable evils, in This Has Happened.

World War II in Literature for Youth
World War II in Literature for Youth

Author: Patricia Hachten Wee

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780810853010

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This comprehensive volume provides a wealth of information with annotated listings of more than 3,500 titles--a broad sampling of books on the war years 1939-1945. Includes both fiction and nonfiction works about all aspects of the war. Professional resources for educators aligned to the educational standards for social studies; technical references; periodicals and electronic resources; a directory of WWII museums, memorials, and other institutions; and topics for exploration complement this excellent library and classroom resource.

The Prince
The Prince

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli

Publisher: Branden Books

Published: 2002-07-16

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0937832383

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"The Prince" is a political treatise by Machiavelli that is not considered to be representative of the work published during his lifetime, but is the most remembered. The theories in this book describe methods that an aspiring prince can use to acquire the throne, or an existing prince can use to maintain his reign. These theories include defense and military, perceived reputation, generosity, cruelty versus mercy, gaining honors, fortune and a number of other discourses.

From My Tuscan Window
From My Tuscan Window

Author: George H. Russell

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-12-10

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 1453538461

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In the fall of 1973, George, his wife, Sue, and their Italian-born two-year-old daughter Anne noticed a bent-over sign that read Gioviano and, on a whim, decided to see what lay at the end of the road. After twenty-eight hairpin turns up the side of a mountain on the flanks of the Apuanian Alps overlooking the Serchio Valley some twenty miles north of the city of Lucca, the Russell family arrived at one of the most charming and unspoiled villages left in Italy. That little adventure would change their lives forever and perhaps even the lives and future of the little hill town itself. from My Tuscan Window chronicles the experiences of the Russell family over the course of thirty-seven years in the little Tuscan hill town of Gioviano.

Black Warriors: the Return of the Buffalo Soldier
Black Warriors: the Return of the Buffalo Soldier

Author: Ivan J. Houston

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2023-03-26

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1663251290

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The Italians in the towns and villages liberated by the buffalo soldiers during World War II called them Giganti Buoni, the Good Giants. They did not know that these giants would return to a country where they were still second-class citizens. In 2012, Ivan J. Houston, one of those remaining buffalo soldiers, was invited to return to Italy by the owner of a villa his battalion captured. He and his family would be guests at the fifteenth-century Villa Orsini, now a bed and breakfast renamed the Villa La Dogana. His return to Tuscany almost seventy years after the war had ended was filled with emotion. In this book, he describes how he went back to a place where African American buffalo soldiers are considered heroes and liberators. He visits battlefields where more than three thousand African American buffalo soldiers were killed or wounded as they battled Nazi and Fascist soldiers. The author and his family returned to Italy for five consecutive years, visiting the battle sites and celebrating ancient victories that will never be forgotten.