Research Catalog

Title

A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis / Catherine Bailey ; maps illustrated by Ian Moores.

Author

Bailey, Catherine, 1960-

Publication

• [New York, NY] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Moores, Ian

Description

ix, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"A story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north of Italy. Beautiful and privileged, Fey and her two young sons lead a tranquil life undisturbed by the trauma and privations of war. But with Fascism approaching its zenith, Fey's peaceful existence is threatened when Ulrich and Detalmo take the brave and difficult decision to resist the Nazis. When German soldiers pour over the Italian border, Fey is suddenly marooned in the Nazi-occupied north and unable to communicate with her husband, who has joined the underground anti-Fascist movement in Rome. Before long, SS soldiers have taken up occupancy in the castle. As Fey struggles to maintain an air of warm welcome to her unwanted guests, the clandestine activities of both her father and husband become increasingly brazen and openly rebellious. Darkness descends when Ulrich's foiled plot to kill the Fuhrer brings the Gestapo to Fey's doorstep. It would be months before Detalmo learns that his wife had been arrested and his two young boys seized by the SS"--

Alternative Title

One family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis

Subject

• Von Hassell, Fey
• Pirzio-Biroli, Detalmo, 1916-2006
• Hassell, Ulrich von, 1881-1944
• World War (1939-1945)
• 1933-1945
• Anti-Nazi movement > Germany
• Anti-Nazi movement > Italy
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
• Political prisoners > Germany > Biography
• Political prisoners > Italy > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Children > Italy
• HISTORY / Holocaust
• HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
• HISTORY / Military / World War II
• Anti-Nazi movement
• Political prisoners
• Politics and government
• Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945
• Germany
• Italy

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.

Note

• "First published in Great Britain as The Lost Boys: a Family Ripped Apart by War, by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2019"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 20-2247

ISBN

• 9780525559290
• 0525559299
• 9780525559313
• 0525559310

LCCN

• 2019035993
• 40029538659

OCLC

1090388533

Author

Bailey, Catherine, 1960- author.

Title

A castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis / Catherine Bailey ; maps illustrated by Ian Moores.

Publisher

[New York, NY] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1933-1945

Added Author

Moores, Ian, cartographer.

Other Form:

Online version: Bailey, Catherine, A castle in wartime [New York] : Viking, [2019] 9780525559306 (DLC) 2019035994

Other Standard Identifier

40029538659

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2247