Italian POWs and a Texas Church: The Murals of St. Mary's

by Donald Mace Williams

While the tragedy of World War II played itself out in the cities and across the countrysides of Europe, a different drama took place in the Texas Panhandle, where three thousand Italian prisoners of war were interned in a camp at Hereford. In the last year of the war, the prisoners suffered a siege of hunger dictated by government-ordered cutbacks in rations. Only a handful of prisoners found a way to supplement their meager meals. Franco Di Bello,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724700
• ISBN13: 9780896724709
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"