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A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis / Catherine Bailey ; maps illustrated by Ian Moores.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DD256.3 .B266 2019

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    "A story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north of Italy. Beautiful and privileged, Fey and her two young sons lead a tranquil life undisturbed by the trauma and privations of war. But with Fascism approaching its zenith, Fey's peaceful existence is threatened when Ulrich and Detalmo take the brave and difficult decision to resist the Nazis. When German soldiers pour over the Italian border, Fey is suddenly marooned in the Nazi-occupied north and unable to communicate with her husband, who has joined the underground anti-Fascist movement in Rome. Before long, SS soldiers have taken up occupancy in the castle. As Fey struggles to maintain an air of warm welcome to her unwanted guests, the clandestine activities of both her father and husband become increasingly brazen and openly rebellious. Darkness descends when Ulrich's foiled plot to kill the Fuhrer brings the Gestapo to Fey's doorstep. It would be months before Detalmo learns that his wife had been arrested and his two young boys seized by the SS"-- Provided by publisher.
    Uniform Title
    Lost boys
    Variant Title
    One family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Bailey, Catherine, 1960- author.
    Published
    [New York, NY] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
    ©2019
    Locale
    Germany
    Italy
    Other Authors/Editors
    Moores, Ian, cartographer.
    Notes
    "First published in Great Britain as The Lost Boys: a Family Ripped Apart by War, by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019"--Title page verso.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780525559290
    0525559299
    9780525559313
    0525559310
    Physical Description
    ix, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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