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Format: Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Dec 2005
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 464
In September 1943, fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with thousands of other Jewish refugees seeking safety, only to find an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allied forces, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive the harsh realities of World War II. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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