Vittorio Palumbo
Italian Days, Arabian Nights: Coming of Age in the Shadow of Mussolini traces the journey of a young child through the upheavals of war and betrayal. In 1939, a centuries-old way of life is shattered when Vittorio Palumbo's family seeks to escape poverty by answering their fascist leaders' call to colonize Arab lands in Libya. Only months later, this six-year-old joins several thousand other children back to Italy for forced enrollment in Mussolini's military schools of indoctrination.
Italian Days, Arabian Nights