Product Description: "The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos Passos John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans...read more

In 1943, in Naples, Italy, a handful of abandoned children, left behind in the bombed-out city and armed only with a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own courage and ingenuity, join forces with Corporal Steve Connors, an American soldier cut off from his unit, to take on the German Army advancing on the city. Reprint.