The story itself was great (and true, the setting was perfect and the message about human response to the war, danger and risk was exceptional. Relying on his wits and the help of charismatic locals, he retreats to ever more remote locations in the Appenine Mountains to evade the advancing German military.

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This is no Boy’s Own tale of derring-do, but the story of a young man of 22, often frightened, questioning his own motives and strength of character and feeling intense guilt at times at the lengths to which his various hosts go to save him. I have just reread this some years after I first discovered it, and was surprised to find how much of the story came as a surprise to me as I had forgotten all but the barest outline of the story. It's incredible how brave and selfless the local people that Eric encountered were, not thinking twice before helping him and others escape and evade the occupying Germans and fascist militias. The scenery in Italy was as you would expect, Beautiful, the baddies lost in the end,and for the two lovebirds to be reunited at the end, was wonderful, but that scene where a certain Italian was sweeping away the confetti after Eric and Wanda's Wedding, perfection!Newby fell in love with the Italian girl with whom he shared an exchange of language - she taught him Italian, he taught her English. MAFS UK viewers SHOCKED after Thomas and Roz engage in X-rated shenanigans during group dinner party: 'He's turned into Mr Grey! All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. which preceded Love and War in the Apenninesand detailed a career diversion into the women’s fashion business, Newby describes how he and Wanda were reunited and married in 1946, against all the odds.

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Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', `Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. In fact, two more grain races followed the 1939 race in which Newby participated, with the last race being held in 1949. It is one of the many phrases of the time that add to the resonance of Love and War in the Apennines (1971), a vivid memoir of Eric Newby’s capture, escape and recapture in Italy’s mountainous terrain during the later years of the Second World War. However, this book is not quite as I expected and I found I was skimming a lot due to not really being engaged by the writing.She is, along with her parents, an outsider in Italy, a Slovene whose family were deported from territory ceded to Italy after the previous world war. Newby was captured after an abortive attempt to play a rather amateurish 'special forces' role and blow up German bombers on a coastal airfield in Italy. His captivity by the Italians would not last - Mussolini was deposed shortly after his incarceration and he was liberated before the Germans could take over his prison.