Where The Hell Have You Been Monty, Italy And One Man's Escape

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Short Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 246 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured by German forces. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him and his peers, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid. unknown to anyone else, he was the stepson of Lt-Gen Bernard Montgomery, who had just inflicted the first serious land defeat on the Third Reich. This enthralling wartime story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy the same made famous by Eric Newby and of his subsequent escape. Having decided on the high-risk strategy of making his way back to Allied HQ in the south, he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory, evading capture again and again and ultimately being saved by a family of brave Italian peasants who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to hide him. In the winter of 1943, a year after he had disappeared, Carver staggered back into army HQ, gaunt and exhausted - to be greeted by a delighted but characteristically gruff Monty with the now infamous words. Where the hell have you been? This is a tale of great adventure and derring-do - a reminder of a lost age when, in the face of terrifying challenges, a generation rose to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.

ISBN: 9781906021535