The world is a prison
By: Guglielmo Petroni ; translated from the Italian by John Shepley.
Publisher: Marlboro Press/Northwestern University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Petroni, Guglielmo, 1911-; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Italian.; Prisoners of war -- Italy -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The author's tale of being arrested in Rome on May 3, 1944, and of the following thirty-three days of beatings, interrogations, and transfers from one prison to the next, is one of "survival and growth, an account of his experiences and a meditation on their meaning for himself, for his compatriots, and for an entire country."--Cover.