1944: Over fifty years ago in early June, Allied troops landed on French soil, on a day called D-Day. Fifty years ago in late June, Italy was liberated from Fascist and German domination. Now comes a true story of great courage from those eventful days. The Consul is a hair-raising and heartwarming story of a U.S. Diplomat and two female staffers caught in the trap of World War II and taken prisoner by the Nazi/Fascists. The author's adventures among the partisans and peasants of Umbria, in central Italy, are a window into the amazing fortitude of ordinary people in times of peril. “It puts fiction to shame. It is a story of danger and adventure, of risk, courage and fortitude beyond imagination…“ -Steven Muller, President Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University