Whicker's War

As in his Channel 4 series Whicker's War, Alan Whicker now emerges from behind the camera to talk us through the struggle against Adolf Hitler's invincible Wehrmacht in Italy, to give us a first-hand flavour of a savage and forgotten world.
Now at last we go back with him, back to the day when his travels began - when the British Eighth Army invaded Sicily and pursued the German Tenth and Fourteenth Armies up the boot of Italy to the Swiss Alps, and defeat. It's a true adventure story; daily he faced death, once he was a multimillionaire...
He captured the last stronghold of the German SS, served with a vain Allied General so determined to win credit for liberating Rome that his disobedience lengthened the war by a year... and watched the gruesome spectacle of Dictator Benito Mussolini hanging upside down outside a Milan garage next to his loyal mistress.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, 2 August 1925, Alan Whicker attended Haberdashers' Aske's School, London, before serving as captain in Devonshire Regiment during World War II and then a director with the Army Film and Photo Section with British 8th Army and U.S. 5th Army. His long and extremely distinguished career includes positions as a newspaper war correspondent in Korea, foreign correspondent, novelist, writer, radio broadcaster and host of over 30 episodes of Whicker's World between 1959 and 1993. He has worked for the BBC and ITV, has been broadcast by Channel 4 and has been a producer and host for numerous television specials and documentaries. He is at present the face of the travel company Travelocity.