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The glass mountain : escape and discovery in wartime Italy

Gaskill, Malcolm2026
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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.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2026.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2025.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781802062014 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
945.091092945.091B GAS
Language:
English
BRN:
9107326
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