Italian Guardian Angels

Thoroughly recommend this book to you all: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/War-veteran-forget-guardian-angels/article-704373-detail/article.html First half is about the horrors of war in the Desert, second half is after his capture, imprisonment and subsequent escape from Camp 53 in Sforzacosta.  Followed by a year being sheltered by Italians, whose descendants he still visits