Bartalis Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italys Secret Hero Hoyt Megan
Bartalis Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italys Secret Hero Hoyt Megan Author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno bring to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved…
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Bartalis Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italys Secret Hero Hoyt Megan
Author Megan Hoyt and illustrator Iacopo Bruno bring to light the inspiring, true story of Gino Bartali, a beloved Italian cyclist and secret champion in the fight for Jewish lives during World War II.Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Soldiers marched into Italy. Gino became an international sports hero But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything.
And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested.To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion cyclist. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. But Gino's greatest achievement was something he never told a soul--that he secretly worked with the Italian resistance to save hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children, and others, from certain death, using the one