Love and War in the Apennines

Informationen zum Autor Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. During World War II, he served in the Special Boat Section and was captured. He married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next 50 years she was at his side on many adventures. After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE and awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers. He died in 2006. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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'His masterpiece' Spectator
'Superbly funny ... as civilizing, generous and affecting as "Vivere in Pace", and the men, women and children, weather and woodsmoke are as fresh as yesterday' Observer
'A vivid description of Italian village life, full of notable characters ... and the reactions of one sensitive man to being out of the war in the middle of one' Daily Telegraph
'It is necessary to state with emphasis that this is a very good book indeed' Times Literary Supplement
'An exciting story, superbly told. And wisdom, courage and generosity illuminate it' Punch

Product details

• Authors: Eric Newby
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9780007367894
• ISBN: 978-0-00-736789-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, Memoirs, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Second World War, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Prisoners of War, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs