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It Was Never About the Babe: The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and the Curse of the Bambino
by Jerry M. GutlonFor years, Red Sox fans were told that their team was cursed because the Sox sold Babe Ruth to the hated Yankees. But as Jerry Gutlon reveals in It Was Never About the Babe, there is much more drama to Red Sox history than the "Curse of the Bambino." The truth is more shocking than any myth. With the thorough research of a seasoned journalist and the zeal of a lifelong Red Sox fan, Gutlon explains why the Sox came up short season after season: ownership chose managers and players not based on their talent, but on whom they drank with; before and after baseball integrated, personal and institutional racism affected their decision-making; and their teams consistently lacked the talent, leadership, chemistry, and luck needed to win championships. Most fans don't know that Babe Ruth was sold not just to produce a Broadway play, bust also because commissioner Ban Johnson was trying to run Sox owner Harry Frazee out of baseball and because Ruth was a major disruption in the Sox clubhouse. They will be surprised to learn that Jackie Robinson tried out at Fenway Park and shocked to learn that much-admired Tom Yawkey, along with owning the Red Sox, also owned a brothel for decades. Covering the early Red Sox championship dynasty of Ruth, the never-good-enough teams of Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, and Carlton Fisk and Curt Schilling, It Was Never About the Babe is an eye-opening read for every baseball fan, and a must-own book for every fan in Boston.
It Was Sheridan's Fault Not Custer's: And The Ties To Current Planning
by Major Hubert L. StephensMartin van Creveld, a noted theorist, contends that the concept of operational art did not take off in the U.S. until after the Vietnam War. Conversely, James Schneider, a prominent military theorist, asserts that operational art began in the American Civil War. This monograph provides a holistic analysis of four Plains Indian War Campaigns. Lieutenant General (LTG) Philip Sheridan conducted all four campaigns. This analysis illustrates several enduring principles of both operational art and counterinsurgency (COIN) operations. The purpose of the monograph is to explain the initial failure of LTG Sheridan's 1876 Centennial Campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. Additionally, this explanation relates the significance of LTG Sheridan's planning to contemporary COIN campaign planning. The overall methodology is the incorporation of four case studies to test the theory of sanctuary control and elimination of resources to defeat insurgencies.The monograph contains three key findings. The first key finding is that the failure at the Little Big Horn was LTG Sheridan's fault not LTC Custer's, and this directly relates to the second finding. The second key finding is the importance of operational art in designing a campaign plan to link tactical actions to strategic objectives. The third finding is the efficacy of some of the current COIN tenets...Ultimately, this monograph demonstrates the utility of a strategy of exhaustion and its resulting operations to control terrain and insurgent sanctuaries as well as to deny the enemy resources to defeat an insurgency.
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
by Jack LoweryShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas PrizeThe story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief. In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury&’s art and activism from iconic images like the &“Kissing Doesn&’t Kill&” poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis. Gran Fury and ACT UP&’s strategies are still used frequently by the activists leading contemporary movements. In an era when structural violence and the devastation of COVID-19 continue to target the most vulnerable, this belief in the power of public art and action persists.
It Wasn't About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War
by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.Was the Civil War really about slavery? Or was it a war fought over money? Civil War historian Samuel Mitcham (Vicksburg, Bust Hell Wide Open) opens his fascinating new book It Wasn't About Slavery with Dr. Grady McWhiney's claim that "what passes as standard American history is really Yankee history written by New Englanders or their puppets to glorify Yankee heroes and ideals." Relying on 19th century sources, Mitcham lays out his case that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War and that the Civil War narrative taught in schools today is wildly misleading.
It Will Yet Be Heard: A Polish Rabbi's Witness of the Shoah and Survival
by Leon ThorneNobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a work of “bitter truth” that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition, including both Thorne’s original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Poland. Rabbi Thorne composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant’s pigsty. But, It Will Yet Be Heard is remarkable not only for the story of its composition, but also for its moral clarity and complexity. A deeply religious man, Rabbi Thorne bore witness to forced labor camps, human degradation, and the murders of entire communities. And once he emerged from hiding, he grappled not only with survivor’s guilt, but also with the lingering antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Poland even after the war ended. Harrowing, moving, and deeply insightful, Rabbi Thorne’s firsthand account offers a rediscovered perspective on the twentieth century’s greatest tragedy.
Italia '90: Una épica de lo imposible
by Pablo S. AlonsoUn relato completo, dinámico y detallado de Italia '90, la copa mundial de fútbol en la que el seleccionado argentino estuvo a punto de repetir la épica del 86 y que ha quedado marcada a fuego en la memoria emocional de varias generaciones. Posiblemente haya sido uno de los peores mundiales de la era moderna. Posiblemente haya sido, también, uno de los peores equipos argentinos en mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, el Mundial 90 permanecerá marcado a fuego en la memoria de los que lo vivimos. Un equipo repleto de defensores, con el crack averiado, con muchos jugadores en malas condiciones físicas, pero que fue avanzando contra todo pronóstico. Una Armada Brancaleone en pantalones cortos. "Notti magiche", las patadas de los cameruneses, Caniggia en el banco, la derrota inicial, la fractura de Pumpido, el regreso de la Mano de Dios, los centros (errados) de Goyco, Batista homenajeando a la Momia, el pase agónico a octavos, los tiros en los palos de Brasil, el bidón de Branco, el gol de Cani, los penales contra Yugoslavia, el tobillo de Maradona, los silbidos al himno, Zenga tirando un puñetazo al aire, la sonrisa de Cani, los penales de Goyco, siamo fuori, la final, Codesal, las lágrimas de Maradona. Solo algunas de las muchas cosas que se pueden enumerar; una lista no taxativa. Italia '90. Una épica de lo imposible transita cada uno de los caminos y meandros de ese torneo extraño pero entrañable, en el que un equipo alteró su destino a base de obstinación, personalidad y suerte. Con el análisis de cada una de las aristas de ese verano italiano repleto de noches mágicas, Pablo Alonso consigue ingresar al canon de grandes autores -Sasturain, Burgo, Borinsky y Vignone, entre otros- de libros mundialistas.Matías Bauso, autor de 78. Historia oral del Mundial Con mucho material de archivo y numerosas entrevistas a quienes estuvieron ahí, lo vivieron o lo cubrieron en su momento -y con el monumental trabajo de Matías Bauso sobre el mundial de 1978 como referencia-, el periodista Pablo S. Alonso asume la compleja tarea de retratar Italia '90, acaso uno de los últimos mundiales que alcanzaron el aura de campeonato épico en la memoria colectiva. Su exhaustiva investigación reconstruye el contexto -primeros tiempos del menemismo- en que el seleccionado de Bilardo, que venía de ganar el campeonato del 86, viajó a Europa. Quiénes fueron los grandes personajes (Maradona, de alguna manera también Claudia Villafañe, Coppola, Havelange y Grondona; el Pájaro Claudio "Paul" Caniggia; Olarticoechea, Burruchaga y, por supuesto, Goycochea), quiénes los grandes ausentes (Valdano), quiénes los "villanos" (Codesal, el discutidísimo árbitro de la final); cómo fue el negocio (barrabravas; turismo; política), la cobertura mediática, los mitos y rumores; cuáles los trucos del DT (las cábalas y los artilugios no siempre limpios para alentar a los propios y las jugadas sucias para debilitar a los rivales) y cómo fue cada uno de los partidos de Argentina: contra Camerún, Rusia, Rumania, Brasil, Yugoslavia (con el pormenorizado relato de los diez penales que definieron el encuentro), el triunfo sobre el anfitrión y, finalmente, el reencuentro con Alemania. Perfecto para leer escuchando "Un'estate Italiana", conocida popularmente como "Notti magiche", la emotiva canción oficial.
La Italia de la Ilustración (Historia Incógnita)
by Jorge García SánchezGoya, Moratín, Godoy, el Duque de Alba: Todo el esplendor de la Italia ilustrada a través de las peripecias de famosos personajes que viajaron a la búsqueda del saber y del buen gusto. Goya, Moratín, Godoy o el duque de Alba viajaron por Italia para imbuirse en su cultura: fue el Grand Tour Español del siglo XVIII. Sumérjase en el esplendor de la Italia ilustrada a través de las peripecias de aristócratas insolventes, aventureros cosmopolitas, arqueólogos ilustrados y artistas canallescos que viajaron a la búsqueda del saber y del buen gusto. Aristócratas insolventes, aventureros cosmopolitas, arqueólogos ilustrados y artistas canallescos pueblan el universo de los españoles que viajaron a la Italia del Siglo de las Luces y de los albores de la contemporaneidad. Los escenarios de esta obra abrazan desde la pomposa Corte pontificia a las empedradas callejuelas de los barrios de mala nota, de las excavaciones a cielo abierto de Pompeya a los pintorescos canales venecianos. En la bota italiana, nunca mejor definida como el Gran Teatro del Mundo, escribieron, amaron y murieron nuestros ilustres compatriotas, a modo de actores de una tragicomedia dieciochesca. Diarios esbozados en los caminos, apuntes literarios y manuscritos redactados en el calor del meridión se alían para esclarecer esta trama italiana. Los testimonios vitales que aquí se recogen constituyen una fuente de primera mano imprescindible para aquellos que deseen profundizar acerca del peregrinaje intelectual y artístico que portó a tantos españoles a Italia.
The Italian
by Ann RadcliffeFrom the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no qualms about the task, whether it entails abduction, torture - or even murder. The Italian secured Ann Radcliffe's position as the leading writer of Gothic romance of the age, for its atmosphere of supernatural and nightmarish horrors, combined with her evocation of sublime landscapes and chilling narrative.
Italian Aces of World War 2
by Richard Caruana Giorgio ApostoloFlying aircraft such as the Macchi 200-202, Fiat G.50 and biplane Fiat CR.42, the Italian fighter pilots were recognised by their Allied counterparts as brave opponents blessed with sound flying abilities, but employing under-gunned and underpowered equipment. Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, a number of aces continued to take the fight to the Allies as part of the Luftwaffe-run ANR, which was equipped with far more potent equipment such as the Bf 109G, Macchi 205V and Fiat G.55. Flying these types, the handful of ANR squadrons continued to oppose Allied bombing raids on northern Italy until VE-Day.
An Italian Affair: A gripping and emotional World War 2 novel of family, love and devastating secrets
by Caroline MontagueA passionate WW2 story of love, betrayal and secrets, set against the sweeping Tuscan countryside - perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Tracy Rees 'Thoroughly engrossing' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey'Enthralling...An Italian Affair snares us in an ever-tightening circle of love and despair, secrets and forgiveness' - Joanna Lumley***Love. War. Family. Betrayal.Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life. Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not.Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra's son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before.As war rages, the Durante family will love and lose, but will they survive the war...?***Caroline Montague's heartwrenching new story of family secrets, passion and forgiveness, Shadows over the Spanish Sun, is available to pre-order now!
An Italian Affair: A gripping and emotional World War 2 novel of family, love and devastating secrets
by Caroline Montague'Thoroughly engrossing' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton AbbeyLove. War. Family. Betrayal.Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life. Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not.Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra's son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before.As war rages, the Durante family will love and lose, but will they survive the war...?'Enthralling...An Italian Affair snares us in an ever-tightening circle of love and despair, secrets and forgiveness' - Joanna Lumley
An Italian Affair: A gripping and emotional World War 2 novel of family, love and devastating secrets
by Caroline MontagueLove. War. Family. Betrayal.Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life. Under the threat of war, Alessandra's house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not.Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra's son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before.As war rages, the Durante family will love and lose, but will they survive the war...?'Thoroughly engrossing' - Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey'Enthralling...An Italian Affair snares us in an ever-tightening circle of love and despair, secrets and forgiveness' - Joanna Lumley
The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories (SUNY series in Italian/American Culture)
by Anthony V. RiccioA compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.
Italian American Pentecostalism and the Struggle for Religious Identity (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Paul J. PalmaWhile many established forms of Christianity have seen significant decline in recent decades, Pentecostals are currently one of the fastest growing religious groups across the world. This book examines the roots, inception, and expansion of Pentecostalism among Italian Americans to demonstrate how Pentecostalism moves so freely through widely varying cultures. The book begins with a survey of the origins and early shaping forces of Italian American Pentecostalism. It charts its birth among immigrants in Chicago as well as the initial expansion fuelled by the convergence of folk-Catholic, Reformed evangelical, and Holiness sources. The book goes on to explain how internal and external pressures demanded structure, leading to the founding of the Christian Church of North America in 1927. Paralleling this development was the emergence of the Italian District of the Assemblies of God, the Assemblee di Dio in Italia (Assemblies of God in Italy), the Canadian Assemblies of God, and formidable denominations in Brazil and Argentina. In the closing chapters, based on analysis of key theological loci and in lieu of contemporary developments, the future prospects of the movement are laid out and assessed. This book provides a purview into the religious lives of an underexamined, but culturally significant group in America. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Pentecostalism, Religious Studies and Religious History, as well as Migrations Studies and Cultural Studies in America
The Italian Americans: A History
by Maria LaurinoThis gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating lives: Italian-Americans working on sugar-cane plantations in Louisiana to those who were lynched in New Orleans; the banker who helped rebuild San Francisco after the great earthquake; families interned as "enemy aliens" in World War II. From anarchist radicals to "Rosie the Riveter" to Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio; from traditional artisans to rebel songsters like Frank Sinatra, Dion, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, this book is both exploration and celebration of the rich legacy of Italian-American life. Readers can discover the history chronologically, chapter by chapter, or serendipitously by exploring the trove of supplemental materials. These include interviews, newspaper clippings, period documents, and photographs that bring the history to life.
Italian Americans (Coming To America)
by Barry MorenoHere are vivid evocations of New York’s Little Italy and San Francisco’s Italian community around Fisherman’s Wharf, along with the warm family life and neighborhood festivals, the wonderful Italian cuisine, the merchants and tradesmen, the underworld figures, the political leaders, and much more. Brief biographies touch on the lives of physicist Enrico Fermi, politicians Fiorello LaGuardia and Rudolph Giuliani, sportsman Joe DiMaggio, and many others.
The Italian Americans of Greater Boston: A Proud Tradition (Images of America)
by William P. MarchioneA Proud Tradition traces the migration of Italians to America through the development of Italian communities in Greater Boston. Most of the images in this collection have never been viewed by the public. Entire chapters are devoted to the themes of Italian-American family life, commerce and labor, culture and education, religion and philanthropy, and politics and government.
Italian Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley (Images of America)
by Dr Martha Pallante Dr Donna DeblasioBetween 1890 and 1924, Italian immigrants flocked to Ohio's Mahoning Valley. The area's burgeoning iron and steel industries beckoned with job prospects for immigrants fleeing southern and eastern Europe--particularly from southern Italy, a region that at the time lacked opportunity and highly taxed its natives. Upon the arrival of these new residents, neighborhoods such as Youngstown's Smoky Hollow and Brier Hill offered accepting communities, and Niles Fire Brick Factory Company and Trumbull Blast Furnace provided employment. Assimilation was not always easy, and discrimination did occur, but Italian Americans ultimately prospered, making a mark not only as steelworkers but also as shopkeepers, grocers, restaurateurs, tradesmen, educators, doctors, lawyers, legislators, and mayors. This book explores the immigration experience, community, workplace dynamics, celebrations, worship, heritage, and lasting impact of the second-largest ethnic group in Ohio's Mahoning Valley.
The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History: The Imperative of Power (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)
by Michele Bigoni Warwick FunnellThe Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History provides compelling evidence of how accounting, when conceived of as a technology rather than simply as a tool to increase efficiency, can work as a means to sustain power relations in different sites, such as the Church, the State or the factory. This book, drawing upon the growing body of work which focuses on Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, demonstrates how accounting practices were effective in the subjugation of single individuals or entire populations, whether Roman Catholic priests, State functionaries, inhabitants of conquered lands or workers. The effectiveness of accounting as a tool of power is linked to its neutral and technical appearance, which makes it difficult for those oppressed and controlled by its practices to oppose it. Its adaptability to different organizational contexts, as documented in The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History, makes it a valuable tool for sustaining existing power relations and reproducing inequalities and exploitation. The Italian and Iberian Influence in Accounting History is vital reading for academics and researchers in the fields of accounting, accounting history, political management and sociology and European history.
The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality
by Robin Pickering-IazziThe past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote antimafia activities. The societal opposition to mafia influence continues to grow and the Internet has become a frontline in the battle between the two groups. The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality is the first book to examine the online battles between the mafia and its growing cohort of opponents. While the mafia’s supporters have used Internet technologies to expand its power, profits, and violence, antimafia citizens employ the same technologies to recreate Italian civil society. The contributors to this volume are experts in diverse fields and offer interdisciplinary studies of antimafia activism and legality in online journalism, Twitter, YouTube, digital storytelling, blogs, music, and photography. These examinations enable readers to understand the grassroots Italian cultural revolution, which makes individuals responsible for promoting justice, freedom, and dignity.
The Italian Army and the First World War
by John GoochThis is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still controversial defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio Veneto on the eve of the Armistice. Setting military events within a broader context, the book explores pre-war Italian military culture and the interactions between domestic politics, economics and society. In a unique study of an unjustly neglected facet of the war, John Gooch illustrates how General Luigi Cadorna, a brutal disciplinarian, drove the army to the edge of collapse, and how his successor, general Armando Diaz, rebuilt it and led the Italians to their greatest victory in modern times.
Italian Army Elite Units & Special Forces 1940-43
by Pier Battistelli Johnny ShumateItalian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli examines the elite and specialforces units of the Italian Army during World War II. This includes a vast array of troop types, including paratroopers, assault engineers, sea-landing and swimmer units, long-range recce and ski units, and even hand-picked Fascist 'Mussolini' units. It also delves into the specialist tank and armoured units that were created to emulate the German armoured units. While the Italian units discussed enjoyed mixed success, the volume draws attention to the incredibly hard fighting done by some in the deserts of North Africa and the frozen wastelands of Russia. Illustrated with rare archival photographs and specially commissioned artwork, this is a fascinating insight into a little-studied aspect of Axis forces.
The Italian Army in Slovenia
by Elizabeth Burke Anthony MajanlahtiThis powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the army's ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis.
The Italian Army of World War I
by Raffaele Ruggeri David NicolleThe dilemma of the young Italian kingdom and the experience of her army in World War I (1914-1918) were unique among the combatant nations. Late to enter the war against the Central Powers, she faced a massively defended Austro-Hungarian front in the north, including strong mountain features, as well as distractions in the Balkans and a simultaneous rebellion in her Libyan colony. Costly and repeated battles on the Isonzo front culminated in the disaster of Caporetto in October 1917, followed by a remarkable revival and eventual victory in 1918. This concise study describes and illustrates the Italian Army's campaigns, organisation, uniforms, weapons and equipment - including the famous 'death companies' and Arditi assault troops.
The Italian Ballerina: A World War II Novel
by Kristy CambronAt the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save innocent lives in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events.Rome, 1943. With the fall of Italy&’s Fascist government and the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced to take refuge at a hospital on Tiber Island. But when she learns of a deadly sickness sweeping through the quarantine wards—a fake disease known only as Syndrome K—she is drawn into one of the greatest cons in history. Alongside hospital staff, friars of the adjoining church, and two Allied medics, Julia risks everything to rescue Jewish Italians from the deadly clutches of the Holocaust. Soon a little girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina arrives at their door, and Julia is determined to reunite the young dancer with her family—if only she would reveal one crucial secret: her name.Present Day. Delaney Coleman recently lost her grandfather—a beloved small-town doctor and World War II veteran, so she returns home to help her aging parents. When a mysterious Italian woman reaches out claiming to own one of the family&’s precious heirlooms, Delaney is compelled to travel to Italy and uncover the truth of her grandfather&’s hidden past. With the help of the woman&’s skeptical but charming grandson, Delaney learns of a Roman hospital that saved hundreds of Jewish people during the war. Soon, everything Delaney thought she knew about her grandfather comes into question.Based on true accounts of the invented Syndrome K sickness, The Italian Ballerina journeys from the Allied storming of the beaches at Salerno to the London ballet stage and the war-torn streets of World War II Rome, exploring the sometimes heart-wrenching choices we must make to find faith and forgiveness, and how saving a single life can impact countless others.Split timeline: WWII and present dayStand-alone novelBook length: approximately 107,000 wordsIncludes discussion questions for book clubs