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In World War II Italy, Donato Como fights with Italian forces on the Russian front while in Castrubello businesswoman Regina Vacci confronts the evil of fascism's persecution of Jews.
Ettore Vacci celebrates his 80th birthday even as Italy embraces its disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany.
Serving with the Italian 8th Army near Stalingrad, Donato Como's unit faces a massive Soviet offensive and killing temperatures in a battle for survival on Russia's frozen steppes. When the Axis lines break, Donato leads his men in a desperate trek across a desolate wasteland, hounded by the enemy and oppressed by retreating Germans now violently disdainful of their Italian allies. As Donato confronts the realities of unforgiving warfare, his allegiance to the home of his forefa | |  | | Fate's Restless Feet
In 1911, Renzo and Gianni Como land with a Bersagliere regiment in Tripoli as the Kingdom of Italy goes to war with Ottoman Turkey. Angelina Scrivatti embarks on a dangerous journey to America to reunite with the man who abandoned her.
Brothers Gianni and Renzo Como land with an elite Bersagliere regiment in Tripoli, Libya, as the Kingdom of Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. What was expected to be a quick, glorious conquest devolves into primal combat as Italian forces are assaulted from all sides. Renzo risks everything to live up to his duty to protect his brother during a treacherous battle fraught with confusion, courage, and unspeakable cruelty.
Despite dire warnings, Angelina Scrivatti undertakes the perilous journey from Castrubello to America to claim a promise of marriage. She eventually arrives a | |  | | Pulling God's Teeth
Italian fisherman Carlo Como only thought his valuable catch that morning would mean he could marry Tonia, his love. Instead it set off a chain of events that would impact himself and his family for generations to come.
In 1882, twenty-four-year-old Carlo Como goes out fishing one dawn on the wide river near his northern Italian village of Castrubello. The Pirino has provided a living for the Como family for generations, but this morning Carlo hauls in a very different catch: three large white rocks known as "God's Teeth." The valuable stones, coveted by local ceramic-makers, will allow him to marry his love, Tonia Vacci, a worker in the town's dismal silk mill.
But the fisherman's good fortune is resented by estate manager Baldassare Gaetano, greedy both for Tonia and the profit from the stones. Ca | |  | | The Last Italian; A Saga in Three Parts
THIS OMNIBUS EDITION INCLUDES THE ENTIRE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY
THE LAST ITALIAN: A SAGA IN THREE PARTS begins in 1882 Italy and spans more than six decades of personal, social, and political tumult. Three generations of the Como and Vacci families face rapacious landowners, deadly epidemics, harrowing warfare, perilous immigration, and Fascist brutality during the Kingdom of Italy's final sixty-three turbulent years. Throughout, as the characters struggle to balance their commitments to love, loyalty, and honor against the implacable demands of survival, Fate forever stands ready to abruptly intervene.
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