Publisher's Synopsis
Merriam Press World War II Memoir No. 1
First Edition, 2015
As school children, most Americans learned about Wold War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. But few people know much about the Italian Campaign during that war. Of all the western fronts in World War II, the Italian campaign cost the most lives.
One of its survivors, Albert DeFazio, didn't like to talk about his experiences as an American soldier in World War II, but he was also concerned that so little was known about the suffering and death in Italy.
It took Albert decades to be able to describe his experiences in World War II - memories that still haunt him. Now, after seventy years, Albert DeFazio has told his story of the war he cannot forget.
This new, expanded edition, brings Albert's story to life with new material and images of Scenes from a Forgotten War.
72 photographs and illustrations
1 map
Contents
Chapter 1: Growing Up Italian
Chapter 2: Basic Training
Chapter 3: Shipping Out
Chapter 4: Front Lines
Chapter 5: The Battle
Chapter 6: Back to My Division
Chapter 7: The Ruins of Old Pompeii
Chapter 8: Famiglia
Chapter 9: Invasion of Anzio
Chapter 10: Back to the States
Chapter 11: Home Again
Chapter 12: Honorable Mention: Charles E. Kelly
Chapter 13: General Mark Clark
Appendix 1: The Men of Company A
Appendix 2: 143rd U.S. Infantry Regiment ("Third Texas") 1917
Appendix 3: Insignia of the 36th Infantry Division
The Author
Photographs from Author's Collection
Scenes from a Forgotten War
