Love and War in the Apennines (Picador Books) - Softcover

Newby, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330280244 ISBN 13: 9780330280242

Publisher: Picador, 1996

Synopsis

Eric Newby escapes through a hospital window to become a POW on the run in Italy in 1943. With the Nazis moving in from the North and no certain way back to England, his situation appears grim. But with the help of local farmers and villagers, who risk their lives to shelter him, he survives. Hiding in shepherds' buts and even a cave, he achieves three precious months of freedom - and meets the determined and courageous young woman who would become his wife. "Love and War in the Apennines" in an intimate account of the horror and surrealism of war, and of the heroism and selflessness of those caught up in its madness. Eric Newby creates an unforgettable record of the resilience of human nature in the face of despair, and forcefully reminds us of the pointlessness of war.

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Review:

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From the Back Cover:

After the Italian Armistice in 1943, Eric Newby left the prison camp in which he'd been held for a year and evaded the advancing Germans by going to ground high in the mountains and forests south of the River Po.

In strange isolation he was sheltered and protected for over three months by an informal network of Italian peasants. Newby has written a powerful account of these idiosyncratic and selfless people and of their bleak and unchanging lifestyle – full of funny, bizarre and dangerous incidents interwoven with his hopes of the local girl who was to become his wife.

"An exciting story, superbly told. And wisdom, courage and generosity illuminate it."
PUNCH

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0330280244
• ISBN 13: 9780330280242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224