Surviving Anzio: Living in Nazi Italy 1943 and Beyond

Merriam Press World War II Memoir No. 2 First Edition, 2015 The autobiography of a young Italian woman as she experiences the hardship and horrors of war and the Nazi occupation of her country. Living with her family in Ardea, located near Anzio, she survives the Allied landings there and the battles that followed as the Allies finally pushed northward to Rome. Accounts by civilians of the war as it affected Italy and her people, are rare. Sonia eventually came to the U.S. after the war and has made a life for her and her family in her new country. Contents Cherchio, Abruzzo, Italy, 1899 Guagnano, Province of Lecce on the Adriatic Sea, 1894 Abruzzo, 1920 Cognac, France, 1931 Avezzano, Italy, 1939 Rome, 1944 Tre Cannelle, Italy Sezze Romano, 1948 America, 1955 Florida and Maryland, 2011 45 photos