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This book testifies to life in the work detachments of Italian prisoner of war camp no. PG 146, based at Mortara in the Lomellina - an area of Lombardy to the south west of Milan. In September 1943, when news of the Italian Armistice reached the detachments, the prisoners escaped into the countryside and depended on the local people for food, clothing and shelter in the difficult months which followed, during which the occupying German forces hunted them down and sent those unfortunate enough to be recaptured to the Stalags. But there were some who managed to cross the Italian Alps into…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book testifies to life in the work detachments of Italian prisoner of war camp no. PG 146, based at Mortara in the Lomellina - an area of Lombardy to the south west of Milan. In September 1943, when news of the Italian Armistice reached the detachments, the prisoners escaped into the countryside and depended on the local people for food, clothing and shelter in the difficult months which followed, during which the occupying German forces hunted them down and sent those unfortunate enough to be recaptured to the Stalags. But there were some who managed to cross the Italian Alps into Switzerland, others who stayed in hiding with local families, one who travelled travelled hundreds of kilometres to reach the Allied Lines and another who first joined the partisans and then the Allied Liasion Mission. The author's mother and her family hid three South Africans, and with the help of an underground movement set up for the purpose, all of them made it over the mountains to freedom.
Autorenporträt
The translator from the Italian is Janet Kinrade Dethick, who has published several volumes on World War Two in Italy in her own right, some of which are available from Lulu.com. She has also set up several websites on Italian prisoner of war camps - PG 52 Coregia Ligure (Chiavari), PG 60 Colle di Compito, PG 82 Laterina, PG 112 Turin, and the interrogation camps for airmen at Poggio Mirteto and submariners at Manziana, both in Lazio.