One of the first books that I came across while researching my father’s time in Italy was “Love and War in the Apennines”, by Eric Newby, which enabled me to immerse myself in the “Life and Times” of a POW “On the Run”.
The peasants are the great sanctuary of sanity, the country the last stronghold of happiness. When they disappear there is no hope for the race.
Virginia Woolf
“In 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the Italian prison camp in which he had been held for a year. Evading the German Army, he was sheltered by an informal network of Italian peasants. Love and War in the Apennines is Newby’s tribute to these selfless and courageous people and their bleak and unchanging way of life.”
Publishers – HarperCollins
To all those Italians who helped me, and thousands like me, at the risk of their lives, I dedicate this book.
Eric Newby
PG 49 at Fontanellato in Italy - The Story of allied servicemen who were held prisoner of war in this town in Italy in World War II 
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