“SQUADRE”

“SQUADRE”, this historical action adventure takes place in 1859 with Giuseppe Garibaldi and his “Thousand Red Shirt” volunteers invading the island of Sicily at the port of Marsala in order to free Italy from the foreign domination of the Spanish Bourbons (King Francis). Garibaldi surreptitiously enlists the aid of the feared mountain Squadres led by Don Alberto Mistretta who allows his godson, Carlo Sovrumano and his mountain warriors, to give guidance over the difficult Madonie mountains and with military might. Squadres, ferocious fighters, were considered heathens by the Neapolitan captors who governed the island of Sicily and maintained rigid control of Palermo with more than 20,000 troops. It’s a little known fact that without the aid of the mountain SQUADRE, Garibaldi would not have succeeded in freeing the “Two Italy’s” from foreign domination. “SQUADRE” is a fast paced action story with many fact-based battle scenes (factual dates), conversations taken place, except for Carlo Sovrumano (main protagonist), all characters, places, actually existed at the time. Although written in English, “SQUADRE” has been translated into classic Italian as spoken by Garibaldi.