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Love and War in the Apennines

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Taken to the mainland, he recounts the rather comical attempts of the Italian guards to deal with their prisoners. After the Italian government’s surrender to the Allies in September 1943, when their Italian captors fled and the Germans were yet to arrive, the British prisoners-of-war in the orfanotrofio escaped. This classic and well-written book will be sent to you in the Society's undisturbed shrink-wrapping. Eric Newby is an English soldier in 1943, captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a former mansion in Italy.

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I could see why my father and his fellow escapees came to dread passing though hamlets and small villages, their arrival accompanied by a chorus of barking. For more infomation please review our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy and then Accept and Close this bar.This happened up and down the length of Italy and after the war, the British government was rather pathetic in the way they recognised these acts. except Wanda is Slovenian, not Italian - get it right people, else never repeat your confusion to a Slovenian.

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The tranquility of his surroundings and selfless generosity of the people, always described beautifully, sit in stark contrast to the backdrop of the war that is raging in Europe at the time. It's fascinating as a sortof alternative narrative to what you think of in war - rather than it being us and them, he's being sheltered and looked after by the locals in a recently fascist country which is occupied by the Nazis. He had always planned to pretend to be a deaf-mute, by making strangled noises, but ‘I couldn’t do this either. Dust-jacket worn with a tiny degree of loss at the top of spine and internal repairs at extremities. The air was filled with the humming of bees and the buzzing of insects and from somewhere further up the mountain there came the clanking of sheep bells, carried on a gentle breeze that was blowing from that direction.

It's a love story in the traditional sense and in a great realm, as the love and care of the Italians who risked their lives to help save Eric's is a big part of the film. For many of the people in the mountainous parts of Italy, a neighbor in another valley was an alien, speaking another dialect and practicing different customs.

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