Why a Booktrail?
1940s, 2000s: An interesting insight into the war in Sicily and the people of Catania
There’s No Home
What you need to know before your trail
Partly based on the author’s own WW2 experience, this book is both authentic and compassionate regarding the relationships which develop between the British soldiers in Sicily and the women of the town of Catania.
The story of human spirit amongst the horrors of war
Travel Guide
Catania
“He would tell his comrades proudly……or that Mount Etna was 10,712 feet high, or that sixth percent of Italy’s exports came from Sicily.”
This is not a story of war but of one of those brief interludes in war when the almost-forgotten rhythms of normal living are permitted to emerge again..”
Garibaldi gate
The monumental gate of honour bears a Latin inscription, which applies to Catania as to no other city: “Melior de cinere surgo” – “Flourishing I rise from the ashes again.”
All the morning the British Soldiers had been streaming into the town, They came clattering in through the Garibaldi Gate, down the steep and narrow Via Garibaldi, always in straggling single file.
Mount Etnas
“Mount Etnas was 10, 172 feet high, that 60 perfect of Italy’s exports came from Sicily He would talk of the armies that had passed that way.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: There’s No Home
Author/Guide Alexander Baron Destination: Catania Departure Time: 1940s, WW2
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