description: Set in Italy during World War II, Miracle of St. Anna is the story of four Negro soldiers in the 92nd all-black, segregated Buffalo Division. Sam Train, one of these soldiers, befriends a six-year-old Italian boy who leads the soldier and his squad into the Serchio Valley and the site of a tragic massacre. Into the town of St. Anna di Stazzema, on the 12th of August, 1944, had come three retreating Panzer divisions. They had burned farms, and had forced everyone into the church, which they then had burned. One hundred and thirty two people lost their lives. It is into this environment that Sam Train comes, and with the aid of the boy, he, his comrades, and the partisans see a miracle at work.
title: Miracle at St. Anna
titlecomplete: Miracle at St. Anna
genres: African American, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II, Italy, Historical, Race, Fiction, War
ratings_count: 3599
publisher: Books on Tape