All Roads Lead to Rome
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-627-5 (ISBN)
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What happens when a seasoned journalist and travel writer takes on his most challenging assignment yet—crossing not just continents but also history—by retracing his father’s steps on the battlefields of Italy in World War II?
When a slim packet of his father’s letters came to light after his mother’s death, Bill Thorness began a quest to rediscover his father. Thorness traveled to the World War II battlefields where America’s first team of commandos fought. The youngest son of one of those commandos, Thorness gained a sense of the horror his father had kept from his family on the mountain where the First Special Service Force fought. Then, standing on a bridge in Rome, he reflected on the loss his father must have felt in not making it to the end of the campaign to liberate the Eternal City.
In All Roads Lead to Rome Thorness considers his father’s decisive moments in battle and beyond, and how he soldiered on as a disabled veteran through his life, raising a family and succumbing to an early death. Alternating between reimagined battle scenes and present-day travels, Thorness explores World War II and family history, the value and limits of memory, the attitudes of war, and our society’s inadequate understanding and support of combat veterans, who may return with physical and emotional scars that change them deeply.
Thorness steps into his father’s shoes to revisit his story and finish that walk into Rome, weaving a story that is part travelogue, part history, and part memoir about the ravages of war.
Bill Thorness’s varied work as a journalist has spanned more than thirty-five years, from early work as editor of a national business magazine to current work as a freelance travel writer for the Seattle Times. He is the author of five nonfiction books, including Cycling the Pacific Coast: The Complete Guide from Canada to Mexico.
List of Illustrations
Part 1: Difensa
2009 – Journey: Bringing My Father into Focus
1944 – War: Scaling a Mountain
2009 – Journey: An Initial Exploration
2009 – Journey: Replowing Dakota Soil
1944 – War: Talking la Difensa
Part 2: From Helena to the Winter Line
2010 – Journey: The Language of a Quest
1942 – War: Becoming a Solider
1943 – War: Training the Braves
2011 – Journey: Returning to the Battlefield
1943 – War: Sailing to Naples
2011 – Journey: Meeting the Force Family
1943 – War: Boots on Italian Soil
2011 – Journey: Revisiting Difensa
1943 – War: From Winter Line to Anzio
Part 3: Anzio
2011 – Journey: Memorials to Begin the Trek
1943 – War: The D-Day Diversion
2011 – Journey: In the Command Caves
1944 – War: Landing at Anzio
2011 – Journey: Finding Foce Verde
2011 – Journey: Hot Feet on the Road
1944 – War: The Force Joins the Fight
2011 – Journey: Cisterna’s Buzzing Roads
2011 – Journey: History is What You See
1944 – War: Settling in at the Front
2011 – Journey: Conjuring up the “Billiard Table”
1944 – War: The Black Devils Raid at Night
2011 – Journey: Edging into the Hills
2011 – Journey: Dog Tired at the Top of the Town
1944 – War: Off the Beachhead
2011 – Journey: The Suffering of Cori
2011 – Journey: Last Legs to Artena
1944 – War: Making a Mountain Fortress
2011 – Journey: Castle Graffiti
1944 – War: Cut Down in Colleferro
2011 – Journey: Devastation of Mountain Villages
1944 – War: Forces at Rome’s Gates
2011 – Journey: Walking the Ancient Gates
Part 4: Postwar
1944 – War: Making the White Sheets
1944 – Family: A Soldier’s Rough Return
2011 – Journey: Commemoration
Author's Note
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 photographs, 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Dulles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64012-627-9 / 1640126279 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64012-627-5 / 9781640126275 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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