The Road to Civitella 1944: The Captain, the Chaplain and the Massacre

by Dee La Vardera

The massacre and destruction of Civitella on 29 June, 1944 by the 1st Fallschirm Panzer Division 'Herman G ring' as reprisal for the shooting of three German soldiers in the village Dopolavoro--after work social club, left women widows and children fatherless. The book describes the journey of Captain John Percival Morgan and Father Clement O'Shea with the Eighth Army in Italy, to that hilltop village in Tuscany. Even though they had seen much death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781555311
• ISBN13: 9781781555316
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Fonthill Media
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"