It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read When Rome Falls by A. R. Homer
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
ROME UNDER THE NAZI HEEL: Italy has surrendered, Hitler's forces have moved in - and so has a vast hidden network of escaped Allied prisoners of war. And somewhere in the city is a spy...out to wreak havoc when Rome is liberated.John "Jay Mack" MacPherson, an American major, leads the hidden POW organization with his contact, the gentle Father Francesco, a priest in a church on Vatican soil. Jay shares a billet with former POWs Buck Nolan, a plain-spoken GI, and David Lawrence, a British RAF Flight Lieutenant, in the home of Maria, a lovely Roman with whom Jay falls in love. When Maria is arrested for harboring POWs, an offense punishable by death, Jay's grief knows no bounds.The three move their billet to the art-filled villa of Adriana, a rich socialite with a lover in the German officer corps and a son and daughter in the Resistance. Vittoria, her daughter, is an expert bomb-maker who inadvertently dooms her boyfriend and fellow partisan, Renzo, a survivor of the roundup of the Roman Jews, to a fateful mistake the night before a bold attack on an SS police column. The raid goes awry and Rome's Gestapo chief, Herbert Kappler, is called upon to carry out a gruesome reprisal on hundreds of innocent Romans.Nazis and fascists, partisans and POWs in hiding - all await the liberation of the city, some with fear, others with hope. And among them, Jay realizes, lurks a spy, poised to betray the entire POW network when the American army enters Rome. When Rome Falls blends historical facts with fictional characters to deliver a fast-paced tale of breathtaking intrigue and razor-sharp plot twists.
When Rome Falls by A. R. Homer is 372 pages long, and a total of 93,744 words.
This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read When Rome Falls aloud.
When Rome Falls is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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