Canadian Duce

"In June 1940, as the dictator Benito Mussolini took Italy into war against the Allied Powers, the Canadian authorities launched a series of raids against Italian Canadians from coast to coast. Suspected of being a danger to national security, several hundreds of them were arrested and interned without trial. Most of the Italian-Canadian population was declared "enemy alien," community centres were shut, and a multitude of families thrown into hardship and despair. The Canadian Duce narrates this little-known chapter of Canadian history through the experience of a Montreal Italian-Canadian family - the Caruso's - and through the coming of age of their teen-aged son Mario."--BOOK JACKET.Ramirez, Bruno is the author of 'Canadian Duce', published 2007 under ISBN 9781550712575 and ISBN 1550712578.