Lonely Planet Travel Literature: Love & War in the Apennines (Paperback)

from lamour

Newby was a commando who was sent ashore from a submarine to attempt to destroy German aircraft on a German airfield in Sicily. The effort was for naught & while swimming back to the sub, he and four of his 5 companions were picked up by Sicilian fishermen. He ended up in an Italian prison camp. ...

from lamour

Newby was a commando who was sent ashore from a submarine to attempt to destroy German aircraft on a German airfield in Sicily. The effort was for naught & while swimming back to the sub, he and four of his 5 companions were picked up by Sicilian fishermen. He ended up in an Italian prison camp. ...

from nemoman

Newby parachutes into Sicily during WWII and is captured by the Germans. He ends up in a POW camp in northern Italy where he falls in love with an Italian nurse. When the Italians surrender, he escapes into the hills where he is housed by partisans and spends sometime in a cave in the Appennines....

from overthemoon

Now that is what good wrting is all about. Such a limpid style; it flows along like a mountain stream. Newby relates his wartime experiences, from Operation Whynot in Sicily when he was captured, to his escape from an "orphanage" (prison camp) in northern Italy where he met Wanda who taught him s...

from breic

I've liked Newby before, but in this the writing was surprisingly bad. (Just one example: ten "and"s and two pages into a sentence, maybe it is time to start a new one?) The story is also not exceptional. Still, Newby is honest. The story picks up when he gets into dialog, and there are several h...