‘Keep opening the eyes of the populace to the part played by the genuine Italian people over the war years.’

– Ted Fry, former SOE agent in Italy

FROM INVASION TO LIBERATION

This new book relates the experiences of British and Allied servicemen who fought Germans and Fascists in World War II Italy.

Using eyewitness accounts and wartime top-secret official reports, the author describes Allied prisoner of war escapes, secret missions by land, sea and air, and guerrilla warfare alongside the Italian partisans.

The book provides the reader with an amazing story of survival and resistance.

These are the topics:

Freedom

The Long Walk Out

The German Lines

Ticket to Como

Secret Sea Missions

Special Operations

Secret Air Missions

SOE and Montefiorino

Target: General 'X'

The Old House on the Mountain

The Plains Partisans

SAS and the Green Flames

- As reviewed in the Newsletter of the Italy Star Association 1943-1945, and in the December 2008 edition of Family Tree Magazine, and as advertised in Wartime News -

Military History - A5 Paperback - 156 pages - 8 photographs - UK price £11.95