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A Thousand for Sicily
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Young participants join Garibaldi’s volunteers as they sail for Sicily and challenge Bourbon rule. Landing, improvisation and rapid campaigning turn a small expedition into a political crisis with consequences for the whole Italian peninsula.
The novel focuses on the Expedition of the Thousand while showing that unification combined idealism, local revolt and calculated diplomacy. Trease avoids making military success inevitable and gives attention to the people whose communities became battlefields.
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