A Castle in Wartime Audiobook by Catherine Bailey

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Title: A Castle in Wartime
Subtitle: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Military Conflict
Author: Catherine Bailey
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Release date: 10-29-2019
Language: English

Summary:
"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime - it contained more tension, more plot in fact - than any thriller." (Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories) An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times best-selling 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.