Love And War In The Apennines
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the autumn of 1943, a young British soldier escapes from an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and finds himself adrift in the rugged mountains of the Apennines, hunted by German forces and dependent on the extraordinary kindness of Italian strangers — among them the woman who would become his wife. Love and War in the Apennines is Eric Newby's memoir of survival, romance, and human connection set against the brutal backdrop of a country torn apart by occupation and resistance, a narrative as tender as it is tense. Newby's prose is disarmingly honest and shot through with dry, self-deprecating wit, transforming what could have been a straightforward wartime escape story into a rich, deeply personal portrait of Italy and its people at their most vulnerable and most generous. His account stands as a remarkable document of wartime humanity — where courage is found not on the battlefield but in a bowl of soup offered in secret, and where love, improbably, blossoms in the shadow of war. What emerges is a story so quietly extraordinary that the reader is left wondering: how many such acts of grace went unrecorded?
Author: Eric Newby
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the autumn of 1943, a young British soldier escapes from an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and finds himself adrift in the rugged mountains of the Apennines, hunted by German forces and dependent on the extraordinary kindness of Italian strangers — among them the woman who would become his wife. Love and War in the Apennines is Eric Newby's memoir of survival, romance, and human connection set against the brutal backdrop of a country torn apart by occupation and resistance, a narrative as tender as it is tense. Newby's prose is disarmingly honest and shot through with dry, self-deprecating wit, transforming what could have been a straightforward wartime escape story into a rich, deeply personal portrait of Italy and its people at their most vulnerable and most generous. His account stands as a remarkable document of wartime humanity — where courage is found not on the battlefield but in a bowl of soup offered in secret, and where love, improbably, blossoms in the shadow of war. What emerges is a story so quietly extraordinary that the reader is left wondering: how many such acts of grace went unrecorded?