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Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shatteed, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War 11. Here are children, some as young as ten, who take on the German army, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity: children who are determined to defeat the advancing enemy and save their city-or die trying