Love and War in the Apennines - Softcover

Newby, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864427654 ISBN 13: 9780864427656

Publisher: Lonely Planet, 1900

Synopsis

An account of the author's experiences, 28 years ago, as an escaping POW in Italy during World War II

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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: Lonely Planet
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0864427654
• ISBN 13: 9780864427656
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1