While telling life stories, particularly about my involvement in three wars, and reading to my beautiful Grandchildren, one of them asked, "Grandpa, would you tell us about when you were a little boy in Switzerland, before you came to America?" Robili was written to do just that, to tell stories of what happened to me as far back as I could remember until I arrived at the front door of my family's first home in America.

While telling life stories, particularly about my involvement in three wars, and reading to my beautiful Grandchildren, one of them asked, "Grandpa, would you tell us about when you were a little boy in Switzerland, before you came to America?" Robili was written to do just that, to tell stories of what happened to me as far back as I could remember until I arrived at the front door of my family's first home in America.