Street Boys: A Novel - Softcover

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.

y, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience.

It’s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward 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 children. Children who have been orphane