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  • Trails to Freedom

    The True Story of the Medieval Trails Used by Anzac POWs to Escape Italy in 1943–1944

    by Simon Tancred ...
    Trails to Freedom is the story of a solo hike across the Alps that brings to life the fascinating, largely unknown history of the Anzac POWs who escaped Fascist Italy to find safety in neutral Switzerland during WWII.In October 1943, four Australian soldiers left Biella in the foothills of the Alps in northern Turin, fleeing Italy's Nazi–Fascist regime. They spoke no Italian, and they had scant ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • My Father's House

    A Novel

    by Joseph O'Connor ...
    Series Book 1 - The Rome Escape Line Trilogy
    Based on the true WWII story of a daring attempt to smuggle thousands through the Vatican and out of occupied Rome right under the noses of Nazi occupiers.A Washington Post and Irish Times Best Book of the YearFinalist for the 2024 Walter Scott PrizeSeptember 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hun... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Luigi's Freedom Ride

    by Alan Murray ...
    A wholly charming, sweetly funny story of one young good-hearted Italian man. It's about life, bicycles, the joy of the journey and the simple beauty of a life well-lived.'Witty, moving and profound, this is the most enjoyable story I have read this year; a book to be treasured.' toowoomba ChronicleLuigi's Freedom Ride is a charming treat of a novel - as sunny, light and enjoyable as a strawberry ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Joe's Fruit Shop & Milk Bar

    by Zoe Boccabella ...
    A captivating true story that will speak to generations of Australians, from the author of Mezza Italiana.'Nonno Anni gives me a nudge. "You know, when I first came to Australia, I knew that my life would change forever."'Leaving the small village of Fossa in Italy in 1939 to meet a father he barely remembered in a place that was far from everything he knew, fifteen-year-old Annibale Boccabella ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Last Masterpiece

    A Novel of World War II Italy

    by Laura Morelli ...
    In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections.In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland. Across the ocean in Connecticut, Josephine Evans is working as a humble typist at the Yale Art ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

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  • The Last Son's Secret

    by Rafel Nadal Farreras ...
    A huge international bestseller, this heartbreaking tale of a tiny Italian village during two World Wars will stay with you forever.Among the olive groves and vineyards of southern Italy, a boy and a girl are born, moments apart. Far away in the trenches of World War I, their fathers have just died. Now all the men in Vitantonio’s family have been wiped out – all twenty-one. All except him.Growing ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Antipodeans

    by Greg McGee ...
    Beginning with the return to Venice of an old and sick man determined to confront his past, and accompanied by his daughter who is escaping hers, The Antipodeans spans three generations of a New Zealand family and their interaction with three families of Northern Italy. From Venice to the South Island of New Zealand, from the assassination of a Gestapo commander in the last days of Italian ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany

    by Shamus Sillar ...
    'Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together.'This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean sea change only to find themselves in the sprawling Sicilian city of Catania - the 'anti-Tuscany' of Italy. There, any romantic visions they'd had of restoring a villa or stamping their entwined feet in vats of Chianti grapes disappeared faster than the ... Read more

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  • The Fireflies of Autumn

    And Other Tales of San Ginese

    by Moreno Giovannoni ...
    San Ginese is a village where God lingers in people’s minds and many dream of California, Argentina or Australia. Some leave only to return feeling disheartened, wishing they had never come back, some never leave and forever wish they had.The Fireflies of Autumn takes us to the olive groves and piazzas of this little-known Tuscan village. There we meet Bucchione, who was haunted by the Angel of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Naples '44

    A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

    by Norman Lewis ...
    The classic memoir of the Italian city left in chaos by the Nazis is "[a] masterpiece . . . elegiac and furious, and frequently hilarious" ( The New York Times)."Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny," Naples '44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through the eyes of a young, untested man who would never again look at his world the same way ( The New York Times Book Review) ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking in the Dolomites

    25 multi-day routes in Italy's Dolomites

    by Gillian Price ...
    The Dolomites are one of the world's great mountain walking destinations. These extraordinary pale limestone towers, rising from the valleys of northeast Italy, form a UNESCO World Heritage Site of exceptional natural beauty, and the network of hut-to-hut routes threading between them offers some of the finest multi-day walking in Europe.Ranging from 11 to 41km (7 to 25 miles) and taking 2 to 4 ... Read more

    $20.69 USD

  • In Sicily

    by Norman Lewis ...
    Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first, wartime visit - to a land untouched since the Middle Ages - through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have changed over the years. In 1998 he returned yet again to write this book, the result of a sixty ... Read more

    $12.99 USD