With a colorful cast of unexpectedly gentle German guards, helpful Red Army soldiers and generous American GIs, as well as avaricious looters and savage rapists, the book describes the odyssey of an Italian soldier trying to make his way home through a ravaged country.
It is also a marvelous treatise on the folly of war and the consequences of becoming an outcast in a strange land.
The protagonist tells us of his travails as an Italian military internee in various camps in war-time Germany.
Arktos Media Ltd Giuseppe: a survival story, paperback/piero san giorgio
