Surviving Anzio

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.

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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