March 18, 1938: Five days after Hitler marches into Vienna, Eric Lamet - then age eight - and his family flee Austria for safety in Italy where they will stay for several years. In this compelling memoir, Lamet relives the time of his boyhood in an Italy torn by war and chained by Fascism. This is a recollection of rare emotional sweep. Initially, Lamet tells his story from a child's point of view, passing from boyhood and the face of catastrophe to adolescence in a shadowy foreign land. He describes the fate of foreign Jews and political prisoners in Fascist Italy as well as Jews in Greater Europe. The writer's style is as original as his content, at once candidly recalling a dark time yet imbued with humanity and wit.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13
9780815608851
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96698512
Product Key Features
Author
Eric Lamet
Publication Name
A Gift from the Enemy: Childhood Memories of Wartime Italy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Eric Lamet
Series Title
Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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