Audio Book Description:
It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among thethousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken with Germany andmade a separate pace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything butpeaceful, as seemingly overnight it becomes an open battle-ground for the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, andItalian civilians trying to survive.