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Family
Publisher: ECS & DTP, Inc.
ISBN-10: 1976754534
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 65
Copyright: 2016
ISBN-13: 9781976754531
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
With a warm, genuine voice, Provenzano draws you into her life in war-torn Liverpool, filled with air raids and blackouts, backyard shelters, incendiary bombs on parachutes, food rations and grade-school gas masks.
Alma marries a dashing Italian-American GI at the age of 17, and brings us across the choppy Atlantic in a converted cattle ship, heading for post-war America, train rides, headlines in newspapers and sudden deaths. Longing for mother England and friends back home, she paints a picture of her own headstrong children, journeys back home and abroad, and unexpected twists of fate. A unique blend of eyewitness history, nostalgia and the joy and pain of American immigrant family life, this lively, illustrated story reminds us of the 'Greatest Generation' and their hard-earned independence. With heart and a British "Scouser" sense of humor, Provenzano will bring a tear to your eye, and a smile to your face.
Excerpt
Long before anyone ever heard of the Beatles and eleven years before World War II started, I was born in a Liverpool suburb called Fazakerley. Growing up with two brothers and a sister, we would play outside until it was dark, which was ten o’clock at night in the summer. We would play a game called rounders; it is much like American baseball but with four bases, then home. We used four trees in the street for bases.
Wintertime was just the opposite; it was dark at four o’clock, short days and long nights. We spent many nights around our small fire in the living room. My Dad would tell us stories about his seven years in India, how he rode a horse as a member of the Queen’s Cavalry, and how they all suffered from the heat. It would be as high as 120 degrees, and they were used to cool, mild, English weather. He was supposed to stay two years, but the army kept him there for seven. He joined the army when he was 17.
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