Book Launch: Bill Thorness’s “All Roads Lead to Rome”

Wednesday, March 26, 7-8 pm
Phinney Center, Blue Building, Room 6

Join neighborhood author Bill Thorness to celebrate the launch of his new book All Roads Lead to Rome: Searching for the End of My Father’s War. Retracing World War II’s Italian campaigns, Thorness revisit his commando father’s battlefields and steps into shoes to finish the walk into Rome his father was denied. The story is part travelogue, part history, and part memoir about the ravages of war.

Bill will be in conversation about his book, and about the legacy of World War II in Italy, with Phinneywood novelist Dominic Smith, author most recently of Return to Valetto, the story of a historian unearthing his family’s wartime secrets in a nearly abandoned Umbrian village.

This event is presented by Phinney Books. Refreshments and book signings to follow.

Can’t make the event? Order a signed and personalized copy of the book through Phinney Books.

Learn more about the book: Bill Thorness’s website, Publisher University of Nebraska Press.