The Road to Civitella 1944
The Captain, the Chaplain and the Massacre
$52.54
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2016
Summary
The massacre and destruction of Civitella on 29 June, 1944 by the 1st Fallschirm Panzer Division ‘Herman Goring’ as reprisal for the shooting of three German soldiers in the village Dopolavoro-after work social club, left women widows and children fatherless. The book describes the journey of Captain John Percival Morgan and Father Clement O’Shea with the Eighth Army in Italy, to that hilltop village in Tuscany. Even though they had seen much death and destruction during their service in Nort…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781555316 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1781555311 |
| Author: | Dee La Vardera |
| Publisher: | Fonthill Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fonthill Media Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 530g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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About The Author
Dee La Vardera
Dee La Vardera is a freelance writer living in Wiltshire with an interest in social and military history and a love of Italy. A member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists (SWWJ), she has written features for national and regional magazines and newspapers, as well as writing a series of local history books. She co-wrote ‘Survivor of the Long March, Five Years as a POW, 1940-1945’ with Charles Waite, who died aged 92 in 2012, shortly after its publication.
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