Churchill, Gerald
Summary After the Italian surrender in 1943, many British POWs left the camps to try and get back to their lines. Amongst these was Gerard Churchill who, in a concise,…
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Perry, Sam
…few days later we were loaded on to cattle trucks at Modena station, bound for Germany via the Brenner Pass. The thought of spending the rest of the war in…
Watson, Peter
Summary Peter Watson, a British Officer with the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, was captured on 5th June 1942 and taken to a Prisoner of War camp in Fontanellato. After…
Jordan, Peter
Summary of Peter Jordan This factual story, recounted by Peter’s son, highlights his father’s time in PG47 Modena and later in Fontanellato. The similarities of his father’s stories with those…
Flowerdew, Douglas with Bethell, Drew
Summary G.D.H. (Douglas) Flowerdew, a Major in the Royal Artillery (and regular soldier), was captured at Tobruk in 1942. In this self-published memoir from 1988, he describes life in PG…
Bethell, Drew with Flowerdew, Douglas
Summary G.D.H. (Douglas) Flowerdew, a Major in the Royal Artillery (and regular soldier), was captured at Tobruk in 1942. In this self-published memoir from 1988, he describes life in PG…
Harris, George
…attempt to keep our old clothes clean, with the result that we were often covered with mud. We paddled and swam many rivers and soon left the town of Modena…
Stavert, Geoffrey Part 1 (chapters 1-7)
Summary Geoffrey S Stavert (RA) was captured in Sidi Nsir, Tunisia in February 1943. He was originally held in the “cage” camp at Bizerta. Then transferred to Campo 66, near…
Stavert, Geoffrey Part 2 (chapters 8-15)
Summary Part 2 of Geoffrey S Stavert’s story (RA) details his journey South as he hoped to escape via the sea. He was accompanied by three other PoWs. They reached…
Gnecchi-Ruscone Francesco
Summary of Francesco Gnecchi-Ruscone Written 50 years after the event this is Francesco Gnecchi-Ruscone’s memoir of his life in Italy during the war and his musings on whether his efforts…