The author of this wartime memoir recounts the suff erings and deprivations that affl icted the inhabitants of Tufo di Minturno, a small town on the southwestern coast of Italy, during World War II. In powerful and moving prose, Mario Saltarelli tells the tragic story of what he, his family, and his fellow townspeople were forced to endure as battle raged in and around Tufo di Minturno. Th e town, located just north of the Garigliano River, was part...