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ESCAPE & EVASION

'ESCAPE FROM ITALY, 1943-45’
Allied Escapers and Helpers
in Fascist Italy

by MALCOLM TUDOR

ISBN 9780953896417

 Image: Cover of ESCAPE FROM ITALY, 1943-45 by Malcolm Tudor. A book about the help given to allied servicemen who escaped into the Italian countryside after the armistice of 1943.

'Just a line to congratulate you on your latest book. I thought the “Into the Crucible” chapter was very interesting and useful in summarising the general events that followed the Armistice. It was nice also to see you ending on such a delightfully romantic note!'
- RS, ex POW

'Gives a panoramic view to the many-sided story of Italy after the Armistice in 1943.'
- Cav. Uff. J Keith Killby, OBE, founder The Monte San Martino Trust

This is the story of the secret world of escape and evasion in wartime Italy.

The fugitives were thousands of prisoners of war or downed aircrew from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States and European countries occupied by Germany.

Many of these Allied servicemen succeeded in escaping to Switzerland or through the enemy lines. The alternative was a trip to the camps in Germany in sealed railway cattle trucks ...

The true stories and personal accounts include:
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MI 9 and the camps in Italy

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The Armistice

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Escapes to Switzerland or through German lines

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Italian Helpers
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POW trains to Germany
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Rescue missions
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Escape lines set up by the Resistance

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Escaper partisans

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South African POWs

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The Rome Escape Organisation

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The final offensive and the Liberation

Military History - Paperback - 114 pages - 5 photographs - UK price £7.99

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