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Like all guys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 1940s, the author was likely to become a member of the Balilla, Italy's fascist Youngsters Organization. With politics divisions jogging deep in the family members within his palazzo, he and his motley group of friends were recruited into the underground Resistance. Rushing around Rome on bicycles, they smuggled text messages and weapons for the partisans.Later, the author fled to the Italian countryside and narrowly avoided German mop-up procedures, despite for sale out by his most trusted of friends. But this is a lot more than a war account. Lyrical in vocabulary, rich in sentimentality, and having the magic of any typical Fellini film, Romagnoli's memoir is a charmingly told story of the seek out manhood and the bonds of family and friendship.
