Eric Newby

An account of the author's experiences, 28 years ago, as an escaping POW in Italy during World War II

Love and War in the Apennines

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We were, in fact, as near to being really free as anyone can be. We were relieved of almost every sort of mundane preoccupation that had afflicted us in the outside world. We had no money and were relieved of the necessity of making any. We had no decisions to make about anything, even about what we ate. We were certainly much more free than many of us would ever be again, either during the war or after it. And as prisoners we did not even suffer the disapprobation of society as we would have done if we had been locked up in our own country. To our own people we appeared as objects worthy of sympathy.

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