Italian Immigrants Sebastiano and Maria Giuliani are raising their eleven children in the coal-mining town of Kingmont, West Virginia. After the attack on Pearl Harbor four of their sons join the war effort overseas while two stay home. The sons exchange letters throughout the four years of war; letters the eldest son, Rocco keeps. Based upon the author's own family and told through their actual letters, Who will survive the war and how did the family back home cope without their sons? Spanning from Okinawa, to Utah, to Normandy, to Africa, the reader will feel like they're part of a big Italian famiglia. Angela Baldree’s excellent memoir of her extended Italian family during World War II brims with affection, accuracy, and the details and relationships that make every family unique. While it is a work of history, it speaks to us today as we seek to understand our own family’s journeys through uncertain times. — Libby Fischer Hellman, author of six historical novels