For several decades, Italian-born Domenico Forte worked hard in
America with the hopes of bringing his family with him. It was a
slow process punctuated by two world wars. Domenico survived the
first war, but World War II found him in America while his family
was trapped in some of the most ferocious fighting of the Italian
campaign.
The Forte family eked out an existence on a farm just outside of
Pico, a village in central Italy in the foothills of the Aurunci
Mountains. The mountains' towering presence, coupled with a nearby
labyrinth of strong rivers, became the setting for some of the most
brutal combat of WWII. With a population of about 3,000, Pico
became the linchpin of the German defenses; its fleeting military
importance quickly brought the scourge of battle upon its
citizenry. The Forte family was caught in the middle.
"Promises to Keep" chronicles the war in Pico from two
perspectives. It examines the military backdrop against which the
taking of Pico occurred, and discusses the military celebrities in
command at the time of the siege. But more than that, it shows how
the brutal reality of war affected the population of Pico.
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