Allied POWs in Italy in the Second World War
A Bibliography by Julia MacKenzie; © Julia MacKenzie
Note: This list focuses on the Allied POW experience in Italy in the Second World War, concentrating on first-hand accounts that cover imprisonment, escape, reaching Switzerland/Allied lines or recapture and transportation to Germany, and, in some instances, postwar return visits to Italy. The date is of first publication, with later editions included only in certain instances. Some Italian editions are also mentioned but the list is predominantly of publications in English. Please write with any suggestions for additonal titles to: [email protected]
Another version of this list with more bibliographic details, images of covers and short summaries of contents can be found here: www.librarything.com/catalog/JuliaMacKenzie
First-hand accounts
Abbott, Lt.-Col. Denny, Winter Holiday in Italy, The Garhwali (Royal Garhwal Rifles Officers Association), 7 (1 January 1952), pp. 210–22
Allardice, Dallas, Friendship in a Time of War (1939–46). High School of Dundee, Dundee, 2004
Alexander, John Lindsay, On Getting Through/Attraversando le Linée. Associazione Culturale “Il Liri”, 2013
Allison, Errol S., Kiwi at Large. Robert Hale, London, 1961
Anderson, J. [John], Escape in the Apennines. Gamsberg Macmillan, Windhoek, Namibia, 1992
Aries, Angela (ed.), Solly’s War: An English Prisoner of War in Italy and Germany. Cappella Archive, Malvern, 2015 [Written by Lt John ‘Sollyʼ Joel and edited by his daughter]
Armstrong, C.N., Life Without Ladies. Whitcombe & Tombs, Christchurch, NZ, 1947
Bains, Lawrence, Nine Months Behind German Lines. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2013
Baird, Archie, Family of Four. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1989
Bateman, G.C., Diary of a Temporary Soldier. Privately published, Guildford, 1986
Bell, Ian, And Strength Was Given. Tynedale & Panda Publishing, Lowestoft, 1989
—, No Place to Hide. Minerva Press, London, 1998
Billany, Dan, in collaboration with David Dowie, The Cage. Longmans, Green, London, 1949
Billany, Dan, The Trap. Faber & Faber, London, 1950; reprinted Faber & Faber, London, 1986 [novel]
Bishop, Jack, In Pursuit of Freedom. Leo Cooper, London, 1977
Blackman, Michael, By the Hunterʼs Moon. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1956
Briggs, Robert, A Funny Kind of War: A Wartime Log. Arlington Books, London, 1985
Broad, John Evelyn, Poor People – Poor Us, Poveri Genʼ – Poveri Noi. H.H. Tombs, Wellington, NZ, 1945; also published in Italian, Povera Gente Poveri Noi. Edizioni Menabò, Ortona, 2017
Broadbent, Gilbert, Behind Enemy Lines. Anchor Publications, Bognor Regis, 1985
Broomhead, Edwin N., Barbed Wire in the Sunset. The Book Depot, Melbourne, 1944
Brudenell-Woods, Basil, Four Packs to Freedom. Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, NSW, 1998
Buchanan, Kelpie, Mektoub: War Memories 1939–1945. Privately published, 2007
Buckland, John, Adriatic Adventure. Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne, 1945
Bull, Eric, Go Right, Young Man. Blaisdon, Bedale, 1997
Burnett, Bill Bendyshe, The Rock that is Higher than I. Privately published, South Africa, 1997
Burns, John, Life is a Twisted Path: a time of imprisonment, escape, evasion and final refuge with the Mattei of Montecelio and Bishop Alois Hudal of Santa Maria dellʼAnima, Rome. Santa Maria dellʼAnima, Rome, 2002
Caillou, Alan, The World is Six Feet Square. Peter Davies, London, 1954
Calvey, Robert W., Name, Rank and Number. Book Guild Publishing Ltd, Lewes, 1998
Cameron, J.E., ʻPrisoner-Snatching in Italyʼ, Blackwoodʼs Magazine, 259:1564 (February 1946), pp. 109–14
Campbell, R.D., ʻEscape Through Italyʼ, London Calling: The Overseas Journal of the BBC, 220 (26 December 1943–1 January 1944 [printed 25 November 1943]), p. 10
Carton de Wiart, Lieutenant-General Adrian, Happy Odyssey. Jonathan Cape, London, 1950; reprinted Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2007
Chutter, James B., Captivity Captive. Jonathan Cape, London, 1954
Clifton, George, The Happy Hunted. Cassell, London, 1952
Cowtan, John, From the Gazala Line to Behind the Lines: Wartime Memories of John Cowtan. AuthorHouse, Milton Keynes, 2011
Crack, T.E., Missing: Believed Killed in Action. Privately published, Sardis, British Columbia, Canada, 1993
Crompton, Cyril and Peter Johnson, Luckʼs Favours: Two South African Second World War Memoirs [For the Adventure of It by Cyril Crompton and On the Run in Wartime Italy by Peter Johnson]. Echoing Green Press, Fish Hoek, South Africa, 2010
DʼAlesio, Dominick, The Worst is Yet to Come: Allied Prisoners of World War II at Risk in Italy. Vantage Press, New York, 2001
Damini, Ettore, A Boy at War, translated by Philip Vaughan. Privately published, Italy, 1999;
also published in Italian, Ricordi di Guerra. Privately published, Italy, 1999
Dann, Len, Laughing We Ran. Privately published, Tucann, Heighington, Lincolnshire, 1995
Darby, Phil, Press on Rewardless. Privately published, 1997
Davies, Tony, When the Moon Rises. Leo Cooper, London, 1973
Davison, G. Norman, In the Prison of His Days: The Memoirs of a Captured World War II Gunner. Scratching Shed Publishing, Leeds, 2009
Deane-Drummond, Anthony, Arrows of Fortune. Leo Cooper, London, 1992
—, Return Ticket. Collins, London, 1953
de Burgh, H.G., ʻSmugglerʼs Way: A Story of Our Escape over the Monte Rossaʼ, Blackwoodʼs Magazine, 258:1561 (November 1945), pp. 289–98 [reprinted in Ian English (ed.), Home by Christmas?, pp. 107–15]
de Burgh, Lucy, My Italian Adventures: An English Girl at War 1943–47. History Press, Stroud, 2013
Denny, Harold, Behind Both Lines: Experiences as a Prisoner of War in Italy and Germany,
1941–2. Michael Joseph, London, 1943
Derry, Sam, The Rome Escape Line: The Story of the British Organisation in Rome for Assisting Escaped Prisoners-of-War, 1943–44. Harrap, London, 1960; also published in Italian, Linea di fuga 1943–1944: Sulmona-Roma-Città del Vaticano. Qualevita, Sulmona, 2011
Dick, Robert, I was Not Alone. Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1997
Dickinson, E. B. “Dick”, From Jo’Burg to Dresden: A World War II Diary, edited by Taffy and David Shearing. Privately published, 2010
Dodds, Arthur, Desert Harvest. Dianthus Publishing, Cirencester, second edition, 1998
Dunning, George, Where Bleed the Many. Elek Books, London, 1955
du Preez, Laurie, Inside the Cage. C. Struik, Cape Town, 1973
Edy, Don, Goon in the Block. Privately published, 1961; revised edition 2010
Ellis, Ray, Once a Hussar: A Memoir of Battle, Capture and Escape in the Second World War. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013
English, Ian, Assisted Passage. Privately published, 1994
— (ed.), Home by Christmas? Privately published, 1997; revised edition, Monte San Martino Trust, London, 2017
Flederman, Alan John, And Direction Was Given: A Daring Escape from a POW Camp and a Dramatic Journey to Neutral Switzerland. Athena Press, London, 2008
Flowerdew, Douglas, Finding the Way: Wartime Adventures in Italy 1942–43. Privately published, 1988 [includes a memoir by Drew Bethell]
Fox, John Esmond, Spaghetti & Barbed Wire. Wye Valley Press (Derbyshire Heritage), 1988; also published in Italian, Spaghetti e Filo Spinato. Qualevita, Sulmona, 2002
Frelinghuysen, Joseph, Passages to Freedom: A Story of Capture and Escape. Sunflower University Press, Manhattan, Kansas, 1990
Furman, John, Be not Fearful. Anthony Blond, 1959; also published in Italian, Non aver paura. Garzanti, Milano, 1962
Gallegos, Adrian, From Capri into Oblivion. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1959
Garioch, Robert, Two Men and a Blanket: Memoirs of Captivity. Southside, Edinburgh, 1975
Garrad-Cole, E. [Eric], Single to Rome. Allan Wingate, London, 1955
Gerard, J.D., Unwilling Guests. A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, NZ, 1945
Gibbs, Denis L.A., Apennine Journey. Privately published, n.d.
Gilbert, Michael, Death in Captivity. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1952 [novel]
Goddard, K.M., ‘Inside Out!’, Gunner (Journal of the Royal Artillery), part 1, 105 (August 1979), pp. 14–15; part 2, 106 (September 1979), pp. 16–17. See also, ‘Escape Route Re-Visited’, Gunner, 103 (June 1979), p. 13
Goddard, Vilma, A Partisan View. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2011
Goody, Jack, Oltre i muri: La mia prigionia in Italia. Il mondo 3 edizioni, Roma, 1997
Graham, D.S., Escapes and Evasions of ‘An Obstinate Bastard’. Privately published, 2000
Gregson, A.A.M., Escape, Italy, 1942–1945. Privately published, 2011
Haig, A.E.G., Gentleman Cadet to Headmaster. Pentland Press, Edinburgh, 1988
Hargest, James, Farewell Campo 12. Michael Joseph, London, 1945
—, ʻJourney Through Switzerlandʼ, London Calling: The Overseas Journal of the BBC, 244 (11–17 June 1944 [printed 11 May 1944]), pp. 12–13
Harris, G.H., Prisoner of War and Fugitive. Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1947 (digital version: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.209540/2015.209540.Prisoner-Of_djvu.txt)
Henderson, Jim, Gunner Inglorious. H.H. Tombs, Wellington, NZ, 1945
Hirst, Fred, A Green Hill Far Away. A. Lane, Stockport, 1998
Holmes, Hugh, One Man in his Time. Square One Publications, Worcester, 1991
Hood, Stuart, Pebbles from my Skull. Hutchinson, London, 1963; reprinted as Carlino with a new afterword, Carcanet, Manchester, 1985
Horner, Gordon, For You the War is Over. Privately published (Falcon Press), 1948
Jones, Donald I., Escape from Sulmona. Vantage Press, New York, 1980; also published in Italian, Fugo da Sulmona. Qualevita, Sulmona, 2002
Jones, Francis S., Escape to Nowhere. Bodley Head, London, 1952; Mayflower, St Albans, 1977
Jordan, Martin, For You the War is Over. Peter Davies, London, 1946 [novel]
Killby, J. Keith, In Combat, Unarmed: The Memoir of a World War II Soldier and Prisoner of War. Monte San Martino Trust, London, 2013; also published in Italian, In Guerra Disarmato. Privately published (Antonio Millozzi), 2015
Kindersley, Philip, For You the War is Over. Midas Books, Tunbridge Wells, 1983
Krige, Uys, The Way Out. Unie-Volkspers Beperk, Cape Town, 1946 and Collins, London, 1946; also published in Italian, Libertà sulla Maiella. Vallecchi, Firenze, 1965
Leeming, John F., Always To-morrow. Harrap, London, 1951
—, It always rains in Rome. Harrap, London, 1960 [novel]
Lett, Gordon, Rossano: An Adventure of the Italian Resistance. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1955; republished as Rossano: Valley in Flames, An Adventure of the Italian Resistance. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2011
McGeoch, Ian, An Affair of Chances: A Submarinerʼs Odyssey, 1939–44. Imperial War Museum, London, 1991
Macintosh, Charles, From Cloak to Dagger: An SOE Agent in Italy 1943–1945. William Kimber, London, 1982
Mackie, Philip, Hurrah! the flag. André Deutsch, London, 1957 [novel]
Macpherson, Sir Tommy, with Richard Bath, Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Brtiainʼs Most Decorated Living War Hero. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2010
Mander, dʼArcy, Manderʼs March on Rome. Sutton, Gloucester, 1987
Mann, George, Over the Wire. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988
Mann, Ronald, Moving the Mountain. Aldersgate Productions, London, 1995
Marlow, Roy, Beyond the Wire. Robert Hale, London, 1983; reprinted by George Mann, Maidstone, 1997
Martin, Bert and Hazel Spencer, Till We Meet Again: Gunner Bert Martin 1941–1945. Privately published (Ian Douglas), 2017
Mason, Malcolm J., The Way Out: A Kiwi Escapes in Italy. Paulʼs Book Arcade, Hamilton, NZ, 1946; Digit Books, London, 1957
—, The Water Flows Uphill: A Kiwi Returns to Italy. Blackwood & Janet Paul, NZ; Allen & Unwin, London, 1964
Mather, Carol, When the Grass Stops Growing: A War Memoir. Leo Cooper, London, 1997
Mayhead, Chas, Rumours: A Memoir of a British POW in WWII. Pleasure Boat Studio, New York, 2002
Medd, Peter and Frank Simms, The Long Walk Home: An Escape Through Italy. John Lehmann, London, 1951; new edition, The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy with additional material from Andrew Adams, Marcus Binney [son of Frank Simms] and Frank Simms. Sickle Moon Books, London, 2019
Millar, George, Horned Pigeon. Heinemann, London, 1946
Millar, I.G.S., A Long Walk: A Young Soldierʼs Escape from POW through North Italy and Yugoslavia. Privately published, Auckland, New Zealand, n.d. [c. 1996]
Millar, J.H.D., The Memoirs of J.H.D. Millar written for his family, edited by Vermiglia Concetti, Filippo Ieranò, Antonio Millozzi and Giuseppe Millozzi. Associazione Casa della Memoria, Servigliano, 2008 [bilingual English/Italian]
Miller, John, Friends and Romans: On the Run in Wartime Italy. Fourth Estate, London, 1987
Mills, John Brent (ed., with a contribution), Gap in the Wire, Tales of Escape and Survival in Italy During World War II. Owl Press, Sydney, 1998
—, Waiting for the Sunrise. Stewart, Cape Town, 1946 [novel]
Morgan, Guy, Only Ghosts Can Live. Crosby Lockwood, London, 1945
Morphew, Jeff, Five Frontiers to Freedom. Vineyard International, Cape Town, 1999
Moss, Eric, Solvitur ambulando (Saved by Walking). Amberwood, Swanage, 1990
Murray, W.H. [William Hutchison], The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Mountaineerʼs Tale. Bâton Wicks, London, 2002
Mustardé, J.C. [John Clark], The Sun Stood Still. The Pilot Press, London, 1944
Naravane, A.S., A Soldierʼs Life in War and Peace. APH Publishing Corp., New Delhi, 2004
Neame, Lieutenant-General Philip, Playing with Strife: The Autobiography of a Soldier. Harrap, London, 1947
Newby, Eric, Love and War in the Apennines. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1971
Newby, Wanda, Peace and War: Growing up in Fascist Italy. Collins, London, 1991
Newnan, William L., Escape in Italy. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1945; reprinted, edited by A. Kendall Hall. Privately published, 2017
Nisbett, Alfred, Always Tomorrow – Sempre Domani. Athena Press, London, 2008
Noble, Ronnie, Shoot First!: Assignments of a Newsreel Cameraman. Harrap, London, 1955
Oates, Lynette with Ian Sproule, Australian Partisan. A ʻRat of Tobrukʼ with the Italian Partisans. A True Story of Love and War. Military History Memoirs Series, Loftus, NSW, 1997; also published in Italian, Partigiani Australiani nel biellese: una storia vera dʼamore e di guerra. Tipografia Baima & Ronchetti, Castellamonte, Torino, 2017
Oliver, A.E.V., Kriegie. George Mann, Maidstone, 1998
OʼNeill, George, Enough for Survival. Privately published, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1985
Orebaugh, Walter W., with Carol Jose, Guerilla in Striped Pants: A US Diplomat Joins the Italian Resistance. Praeger, New York, 1992; 2nd edition retitled as The Consul. Blue Note, Florida, 1994; also published in Italian, Il Console: Un Diplomatico Americano si unisce alla Resistenza Italiana. Edizioni Nuova Prhomos, Città di Castello, 1994
Origo, Iris, War in Val dʼOrcia. Jonathan Cape, London, 1947; also published in Italian, Guerra in val dʼOrcia. Diario 1943–1944. Le Balze, 2000
Orna, Joseph with Hugh Popham, The Escaping Habit. Leo Cooper, London, 1975
Page, Arthur, Una Bella Passeggiata: Or a Walk in Wartime Italy. Air Forces Publishing Service, 1995
Perry, S.V., ‘Fate has smiled kindly’, Comprehensive Biochemistry, 40 (1997), pp. 383–462
Peyton Jones, Loftus, Wartime Wanderings. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2019
Pope, William Henry, Leading from the Front: The War Memoirs of Harry Pope. Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 2002
Ranfurly, Hermione, Countess of, To War with Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939–45. Heinemann, London, 1994
Rawlings, Alf, Diary of Life in a Stalag: A New Zealand Soldierʼs Wartime Story. Privately published, Timaru, NZ, 1991
Reid, Ian, Prisoner at Large: The Story of Five Escapes. Gollancz, London, 1947
Reynolds, Ben, Call Me Corp. New Holland, London, 2015
Riddiford, Daniel, Committed to Escape: A New Zealand Soldierʼs Story. Ruamahanga Press, Martinborough, NZ, 2004
Robinson, Newman I., Missing, Believed Prisoner: The Story of a South African Prisoner of War. Privately published, Durban, 1944
—, and Peter Ogilvie (illustrator), In the Bag. Macmillan, Johannesburg, 1975
Rogers, S.R., Sixty Bonus Years: A Tale of Survival. Privately published, NZ, 2003
Rose-Innes, Harry, The Po Valley Break: The true story of three POWs and their bid for freedom in Mussoliniʼs Italy. Valiant, Sandton, South Africa, 1976
Rosmarin, Ike, Inside Story. W.J. Flesch & Partners, Cape Town, 1990
Ross, Michael, From Liguria with Love: Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy. Minerva Press, London, 1997; new edition The British Partisan: Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2019
Rossiter, Jack,‘Youʼll Never Make Itʼ: The Escape Diary of Pte Jack Rossiter, August–September 1943. Englang Publishing, Cirencester, Glos., 1992
Salvi, Ramchandra G., Whom Enemies Sheltered: A Saga of Human Love in the midst of World War. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1983; also published in Italian, Aiutati dai Nemici. Cultura e Dintorni, 2018
Sampson, David, After Tobruk: The Conducted Tour. Privately published, Durban, 1986
Schou, Martin, Mountains of Freedom. Privately published, Durban, 2000; also published in Italian, Sugli Appennini verso La Libertà. Privately published, Durban, 2000
Scott, Arch, Dark of the Moon. Cresset Books, Auckland, NZ, 1985
Scott, Douglas, My Luck Still Held. Unie-Volkspers Beperk, Cape Town, 1946
Sexton, Winton, We Fought For Freedom. Burton Publishing, Kansas City, Missouri, 1948
Simpson, William C., A Vatican Lifeline: Allied Fugitives, aided by the Italian Resistance, foil the Gestapo in Nazi-Occupied Rome, 1944. Leo Cooper, London, 1995; also published in Italian, La guerra in casa 1943–1944. La resistenza umanitaria dall’Abruzzo al Vaticano. Sulmona, 2004
Skinner, S.F.W., Sulmona & After. Privately published, n.d. [c. 1989]
Souza, Ken de, Escape from Ascoli: Story of Evasion and Escape. Newton, Cowden, Kent, 1989;
also published in Italian, Fuga dalle Marche. Prigionia ed evasione di un ufficiale di aviazione inglese (1942–1944). Affinità Elettive Uguccione Ranieri Di Sorbello Foundation, Ancona, 2005
Spooner, Pat, A Talent for Adventure. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2012
Stone, Brian, Prisoner from Alamein. H.F. & G. Witherby, London, 1944
Summers, Gerald, The Lure of the Falcon. Collins, London, 1972
Symonds, A.J., ‘Youʼre free!ʼ The Story of Life and Service in Campo PG 53. Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1948
Tomkins, Steve, Of Mice and Angels: The Story of a Welsh Prisoner of War. Privately published, Torquay, 2018
Unwin, Frank, Escaping has Ceased to be a Sport: A Soldierʼs Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2018
Vasey, R.G.W., ‘Escapeʼ, Blackwoodʼs Magazine, 256:1549 (November 1944), pp. 301–09
—, ‘Prison Life in Italyʼ, Blackwoodʼs Magazine, 257:1553 (March 1945), pp. 196–203
Vaughan, Geoffrey D., The Way it Really Was: A Prisoner of War during World War II Recounts. Granary Press, Budleigh Salterton, 1985
Vercoe, Tony, Yesterdayʼs Drums: Echoes from the Wasteland of War. Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ, 2001
Verney, John, A Dinner of Herbs. Collins, London, 1966; also published in Italian, Un pranzo di erbe. Qualevita, Sulmona, 2014
—, Going to the Wars. Collins, London, 1955
Wallis, Arthur James Charles, Nothing Better to Do: Personal Memoirs of World War II. Privately published, 1997
Ward, Edward, Give Me Air. Bodley Head, London, 1946
Weymouth, Guy, AWOL: In an Italian Prison Camp and subsequent adventures on the run in Italy 1943–1944. Tom Donovan Publishing, London, 1993
Williams, Leslie, Letters to My Daughter: Reminiscences of a POW. Privately published, Stockport, 2004
Winter, Albert, Behind the Wire: Life as a Prisoner of War during WWII. Propagator Press, Leeds, 2005
Winter, Peter, Free Lodgings. Reed, Auckland, NZ, 1993
Yeoman, Allan, The Long Road to Freedom. Random Century, Auckland, NZ, 1991
Secondary sources
Absalom, Roger, A Strange Alliance: Aspects of Escape and Survival in Italy, 1943–1944. Leo S. Olschki, Florence, 1991; also published in Italian, L’alleanza inattesa: Mondo contadino e prigionieri alleati in fuga in Italia (1943–1945). Pendragon, Bologna, 2011
Aceves, Crystal, Captured by the Enemy: The True Story of POW Carl Leroy Good. Privately published, 2015
Ayers, Gabrielle, Luigi. Privately published (Grosvenor House Publishing), 2020
Barber, Noel, Prisoner of War: The Story of British Prisoners held by the Enemy. Harrap, London, 1944
Barbieri, Valentina and Vincenzo Ritorto, From Fontanellato to Home: The Story of Lieutenant Hugh Davidson Sillito. Privately published, 2018
Beecroft, W.R., Unbroken: The Heroic True Story of a Group of Anzac POWs in WWII Europe. Brolga Publishing, Melbourne, 2011
Bolwell, Jan, Milord Goffredo: A daughter rediscovers her fatherʼs war in Italy. Steele Roberts, Wellington, NZ, 2002
Bunbury, Bill, Rabbits & Spaghetti, Captives and Comrades, Australians, Italians and the War. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1995
Carver, Tom, Where the Hell Have You Been? Short Books, London, 2009
Chambers, George W., Keith Argraves, Paratrooper: An Account of the Service of a Christian Medical Corpsman in the United States Army Paratroops During World War II. The Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tennessee, 1946
Chambers, Joan, For You the War is Over: The Story of Herbert Rhodes (Aussie) Hammond. Haum, Cape Town, 1967
Dethick, Janet Kinrade, The Bridge at Allerona: 28 January 1944. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2012
—, Il Campo Prigionieri di Guerra 54. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2019 [in Italian]
—, The Long Trail Home: Allied Prisoners of War in Umbria, 1943–44. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2016
—, Montebuono 13/04/44. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2019
— and Anne M. Corke, Twixt the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Story of the Crew of HMS Saracen. Privately published (Lulu.com), 2018
Di Mattia, Gabriella, Campo 78: The Aussie Camp. Accademia delgi Agghiacciti, Sulmona and Museo Italiano, Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 2016 [bilingual English/Italian]
Dornan, Peter, Nicky Barr: An Australian Air Ace. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2002
Dorney, Richard, An Active Service: The Story of a Soldierʼs Life in the Grenadier Guards, SAS and SBS, 1935–58. Helion, Solihull, 2009
Duke, Vic, Another Bloody Mountain: Prisoner of War and Escape in Italy 1943. Iron City Publications, Hebden Bridge, 2011
English, Ian R. and Harry Moses, For You Tommy the War is Over: The Experiences of the Durham Light Infantry Prisoners of War during World War II. Business Education Publishers, Sunderland, 2006
Felton, Mark, Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussoliniʼs Colditz. Icon Books, London, 2017
Fenton, Ken, Alamein to the Alps: War in the Piedmont with Mission Cherokee and the Lost Anzacs 1943–45. Frontier Press, Nelson, NZ, 2011
—, ANZACS at the Frontiers, 1941–45, Northern Italy, 2 vols. Privately published, Nelson, NZ, 2008
Fleming, Brian, The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh OʼFlaherty. Collins Press, Cork, 2008
Foot, M.R.D. and J.M. Langley, MI9: Escape and Evasion. Bodley Head, London, 1979
Gallagher, J.P., Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican. Souvenir Press, London, 1967; also published in Italian, La primula rossa del Vaticano. Mursia, Milano, 1993
Gilbert, Adrian, POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe, 1939–1945. John Murray, London, 2006
Guss, David M., The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram. Macmillan, London, 2018
Hall, D.O.W., New Zealand Prisoners in the Second World War, Official History, Prisoners of Italy. War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Wellington, NZ, 1949
Hobbs, Gynn B. (ed.), From Sicily to the Alps: Personal accounts and recollections of World War II in Italy. Mallard Publishers, Claremont, South Africa, 1999
Horn, Karen, In Enemy Hands: South Africaʼs POWs in World War II. Jonathan Ball Publishing, Jeppestown, South Africa, 2015
Hullis, Shaun, Captains Courageous: Gunner Gregg, Donny Mackenzie and the Liberation of the Nure Valley, 1944. Privately published, 2014
Hutchison, David and David Johnson (eds), Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2020
Jacobs, Susan, Fighting the Enemy, New Zealand POWs and the Italian Resistance. Penguin Books, Auckland, NZ, 2003
—, In Love and War: Kiwi Soldiers’ Romantic Encounters in Wartime Italy. Penguin Books, Auckland, NZ, 2012
Jones, Francis S., Hit or Miss: Being The Adventures of Driver Randle Barlow. Allan Wingate, London, 1954
Kittel, Katrina, Shooting Through: Campo 106 Escaped PoWs and the Italian Armistice. Echo Books, 2019
Lamb, Richard, War in Italy, 1943–45: A Brutal Story. John Murray, London, 1995
Leigh, Maxwell, Captives Courageous: South African Prisoners of War – World War II. Ashanti Publishing, Johannesburg, 1992
Lett, Brian, An Extraordinary Italian Imprisonment: The Brutal Truth of Campo 21, 1942–1943. Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2014
—, Italy’s Outstanding Courage: The Story of a Secret Civilian Army in World War Two. Privately published, 2018
McGill, David, POW: The Untold Stories of New Zealanders as Prisoners of War. Mills, Lower Hutt, NZ, 1987
Marsh, Stella Clare, The Twisted Florin: Evasion from France, Escape from Italy: Squadron Leader John Mott MBE. Uniform, 2016
Mason, W. Wynne, Prisoners of War, Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45. War History Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, Wellington, NZ and OUP, 1954; reprinted Naval & Military Press, Uckfield, 2009
Millar, Florence N., The ʻSignor Kiwiʼ Saga. Privately published, Gisborne, NZ, 1993
Millozzi, Giuseppe, Prigionieri alleati: cattura, detenzione e fuga nelle Marche: 1941–1944. Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello Foundation, [Perugia], 2007
—, I prigionieri alleati nelle Marche e il campo di Servigliano. Tesi di Laurea in Storia Contemporanea, Università degli studi di Macerata, 2002-2003
—, Allied Prisoners of War in the region of the Marche and Prison Camp at Servigliano. Tesi di Laurea in Storia Contemporanea, Universita degli studi di Macerata, 2002-2003. English translation
Milroy, Vivian, Alpine Partisan: The Survival of Trooper Southon. Hammond, Hammond, London, 1957
Minardi, Marco, L’Orizzonte del Campo. Mattioli, Fidenza, 2015 (2nd edition)
Monteath, Peter, Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck. NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2017; Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2018
Newton, Robert A., Soldiers of the Strange Night. Freedom Street Press, Hillsboro, Oregon, 2015
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