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From Kirkus Reviews, 8/22/43: 'He author of No Surrender tailors another sleek tale of rebellion against the Axis, this time set in Rome. Charles Brackett, an American soldier, finds himself an Italian prisoner in an insane asylum. At first, he fights against the false identity assigned to him as Da Ponte, but eventually assumes it and makes his way to Rome, where he locates an American married to an Italian. Sybilla, his daughter, falls in love with him, but he is railroaded back to the asylum and ends up on the run again. When he returns, Sybilla has been killed, and he must find a way to keep the promise he made to her. The story explores the unfulfilled romance between Italian friendship and the Allies, as well as the tenuous gestures of Italian support for the Allies during the war.
First publish date: 1943
Genre: War & Military Fiction/World War II Fiction
Authors: Martha Albrand (Katrin Holland)
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