A gang of street urchins and an American soldier fight off the German army in the streets of Naples Naples, late September, 1943. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless; Mussolini already arrested by anti-fascists. The city has been evacuated, but the German army is moving towards Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: if the city can't belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one. No one but the children. Orphaned or hidden by parents, abandoned or lost, some as young as ten years old, the children of Naples resist. Aided by a lone Allied soldier, cut off from his regiment, and armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs and their own ingenuity, the street boys are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city - or die trying.
- ISBN10 0345410963
- ISBN13 9780345410962
- Publish Date 20 August 2002 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 1 September 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ballantine Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 326
- Language English