THE BITTER FIGHT TO FREE ITALY: A 'D-Day Dodger's' Experiences of the Italian Campaign in 1943

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Tells the story of the early months of the Italian campaign through the eyes of one 21-year-old private in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, Dennis Neil, who found himself lying severely wounded and near death on an Italian mountain on a bitterly cold day in November 1943. While a surgeon at a Field Hospital fought to save his life, his family received a telegram notifying them of the death of his elder brother in that same campaign. Traces one soldier's journey to that mountainside and how his life changed irrevocably as a result of the wounds he suffered that day. Contains 32 mono illustrations.