The glass mountain : escape and discovery in wartime Italy
Gaskill, Malcolm2025
Book
Malcolm Gaskill knew two things about his great-uncle Ralph's wartime adventures: he'd been a prisoner in Italy, and he'd cut his way out of a train with a knife and fork. Apart from that, he'd faded into family folklore, lost to view. Until, one hot afternoon in an English country garden, a chance conversation set him off on his uncle's trail. What Ralph really did in the war was, he discovers, even more extraordinary than the exaggerations of family myth. From last-ditch fighting in the Libyan desert and incarceration in a Puglian prisoner-of-war camp, to desperate, dramatic escapes and the assuming of an entirely new identity among the peasants and partisans of the Italian alps, Gaskill traces a life transformed by conflict, while lifting the curtain on a long-forgotten episode of WWII.
Main title:
The glass mountain : escape and discovery in wartime Italy / Malcolm Gaskill.
Author:
Gaskill, Malcolm, author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2025.
Collation:
xix, 393 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241622599 (hbk)
Dewey class:
945.091092B GAS945.091092 GAS945.091
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4155775