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Synopsis
In April 1943, officer Ian Reid was wounded and captured in Tunisia and sent off to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Five months later, when the Germans took over the camp, he escaped. So began a life-or-death game of hide and seek in the heart of the beautiful Italian countryside, living in barns, sleeping in ditches, and desperate scavenging for food. He was recaptured—though heroically he was to escape from the Germans a total of five times. Nearly 60 years later, Howard Reid quite literally followed in his father's footsteps and made the same journey across Italy. Along the way, Howard discusses father-son relationships, and the deep but invisible scars left by two world wars on everyone's personal history.
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About the Author
Howard Reid is an award-winning film-maker, anthropologist and writer. Before completing his Ph.D. he lived for two years with hunter-gatherers in the Amazon basin, and as a film-maker he has spent several months with the Tuareg people of north Africa as well as undertaking many other assignments around the world. His previous books are In Search of the Immortals, about mummy cultures around the world, and Arthur the Dragon King, which traced the roots of the King Arthur legend back to the nomadic warrior peoples of central Asia.
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"'Thrilling and poignant'" Daily Mail "'Enthralling...a moving story'" -- Blake Morrison "'A fascinating pilgrimage... a worthy filial tribute to a brave and good man'" -- Christopher Hibbert "'A haunting memoir of a father, a son and the legacies of war'" -- John Nicholl, Co-Author Of Tornado Down
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- PublisherTransworld Publishers
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0553815547
- ISBN 13 9780553815542
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages282
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