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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Flavio G. Conti , Alan R. PerryPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9781611479997ISBN 10: 1611479991 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 11 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsThe portrait that emerges is fascinating and remarkably positive; it's notable that Italian co-operators received a modest regular salary and more freedom than most POWs, even the liberty to leave their posts in groups chaperoned by American soldiers. Notes, appendices, and an index round out this welcome contribution to public and college library American history collections, highly recommended. * Midwest Book Review * This...book serves as a memorial for several Italian POWs, all members of the Italian Service Unit 321st Quartermaster Battalion assigned to the Letterkenny Depot in central Pennsylvania during and after WW II. Based primarily on interviews, letters, testimonials, some background texts, and newspaper accounts from the region, it outlines life for those Italian soldiers, captured mainly in North Africa by British and US forces, who then volunteered for the Italian Service Units after Italy changed sides in September 1943. Aside from simple homesickness, the Italians had a good war. They earned money doing war work for the Americans, whereas German POWs worked in agriculture. Protected and supported by the Catholic Church and many Italian American families, many of these men remember their captivity as an introduction to friendship, democracy, and, in many cases, family. The authors point out that Letterkenny was an extraordinary POW experience, with great food and no escapes. That all the Italian POWs returned home pays homage to the US creation of the Italian Service Units. A local history, the book is a remembrance and a contribution to the historical record. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students, faculty, specialists. * CHOICE * Author InformationFlavio Giovanni Conti is an independent historian. His book I prigionieri italiani negli Stati Uniti [Italian Prisoners of War in the United States] won the prestigious De Cia award in 2013. Alan R. Perry is professor of Italian Literature and chair of the Department of Italian Studies at Gettysburg College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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