Salvatore Mastroianni
ASIN: B00BM9AL0W
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 220
American by birth, he grows up in Italy and is conscripted into the Italian army at the onset of the conflicts that led to World War II. He struggles to survive through twelve years of military service in North Africa, Russia, and Italy. After the war, he returns to his father's devastated lands in southern Italy where he can only dream of returning to America. Giovanni traveled two long roads. The first one, a two year wartime journey from Ukraine to his home in southern Italy, was a journey of necessity. The other, a forty five year journey of return as an immigrant to America, the country of his birth, was one of choice.