Suffer the Children - Hardcover

De Simone, Donato; Simone, Donato De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1425720935 ISBN 13: 9781425720933

Publisher: Xlibris, 2008

Synopsis

Donato De Simone WORLD WAR II EVENTS NARRATED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHILDREN CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF ADULT INSANITY A young boy . . . a beautiful town . . . stalked by the Nazis bombed by the Allies . . . hiding Jewish refugees Abruzzo´s mini-holocaust . . . meeting Padre Pioescape to a new life in America Growing up in the tranquility of the Abruzzo region of Italy, Donato De Simone, Danny to his friends, was abruptly plunged into the violence of war as the Germans and Allies contested for the Sangro River in a major World War II battle. Now, after decades of pondering the meaning of these events, Danny recalls the drama of his times. Mixing humorous touches with his graphic descriptions, he creates for his readers a vivid picture of life in wartime: the nomadic journeys trying

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About the Author:

Donato De Simone was born in 1932 in Fossacesia, a small town on the Adriatic coast in Abruzzo, Italy. After completing the sixth-grade in Italy, his life was disrupted by the arrival of WWII to his area--the real war. After a seven-week odyssey dodging Nazis, bombs and hunger, the family returned to find a destroyed town. His family was forced to live in a one room hovel. In 1947, they finally succeeded in rejoining his father in Norristown, Pa. A year later, he lost his mother. After surviving the rigors of war, Maria Sorgini De Simone died at 41 of complications from childbirth. Left without guidance at 16, he continued his studies on his own until he was able to attend college. At 28, he pursued a college career, earning a BA and an MA in English from Villanova University and an MA in Italian from Rutgers University. He is fluent in English, Italian and French and has a working knowledge of Spanish, Latin and Classical Greek. After learning English, he taught it to American students both in high school and college. De Simone has been a language educator for 35 years. Married to his childhood sweetheart, the former Anna Maria Fantini, for 50 years, they've had four children and three grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1425720935
• ISBN 13: 9781425720933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400