The Poet's War

It is Europes darkest time in near memory. American warrior poet Alistair Stears thrown into Italian WWI through his mothers love for an Italian colonel experienced a convoy of the dying through burning provinces of Italy in the terrible retreat of 1917. It brought from him the great English poem of the Italian war. One war later all gracious things await destruction knowledge is burned thought coarsened manners trashed perverted faith and truth follow the dictators flags-vultures to grace. Stears is a famous poet now married into German-Italian nobility and determined with his wife to fight the Axis powers. He risks everything to protect Italy and all else he loves. He finds that the bravest and fiercest resistance may be the rightness of a poem the closing of a letter the welcome of guests the embrace of a bride faith toward a fallen friend-and that it may also come from the barrel of a gun. Spanning both world wars The Poets War finds loyalty patriotism war deception intrigue romance love and death swept up in a maelstrom that spans generations and changes Europe forever.