Sixteen-year-old Vincenzo Soldari gathers a ragtag crew of children and outsiders left in the bombed out city of Naples to mount an attack against the invading forces of Hitler.
Discusses the Allied attempt to remove the Axis powers from Italy in 1943, a limited offensive carried out while preparations were made for a giant invasion of France.
Fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, sent to live with his uncle in Camp Hale, Colorado, following the death of his parents in 1944, finds himself struggling between his upbringing as a pacifist, and life on a military base in the middle of World War II.
