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THE A5 BOOK REVIEWLove and War in the Apennines is an extraordinary memoir by Eric Newby chronicling his time as an escaped POW trying to survive in Italy during World War II. Newby was captured by the Germans and imprisoned at an orphanage in the Po Valley. He escaped on foot into the nearby mountains, where he was protected by a network of brave local Italian farmers and villagers who gave him food and shelter. During this time he meets Wanda, a lovely and courageous woman who first becomes his Italian teacher and later becomes his wife. Newby is an eloquent writer, and he authentically captures, with as self-deprecating sense of humor and without any self-pity, the true horror and madness of war and the heroism of the human spirit. Anyone who loved A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush will also love this book.
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OTHER A5 RECOMMENDED TRAVEL BOOKS - ERIC NEWBYEric Newby was an English travel writer, known best for his celebrated travelogue A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1999) and for The Last Grain Race (1956), a story of his apprenticeship on board a sailing ship in a race from Australia to Europe. He also produced a very comprehensive anthology on the history of travel writing called A Book of Travellers' Tales. Click here to learn more about Eric Newby.
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LEAVE YOUR OWN REVIEW HEREGREAT QUOTES FROM LOVE AND WAR IN THE APENNINES"I finally decided to write the book because I felt that comparatively little had been written about the ordinary Italian people who helped prisoners of war at great personal risk and without thought of personal gain, purely out of kindness of heart. The sort of people one can still see today working in the fields as one whizzes down the Autostrada del Sole and on any mountain road in the Apennines."
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