Italian POWs Speak Out at Last

Wars may be examined on many levels. On the grandest scale one can
see them as the movements of masses of troops across a map with arrows
and denotations of decisive battles. With a finer lens one can attempt to
comprehend wars from the statements of national leaders or the strategic
feints, thrusts, and parries of generals who order individual units across
the battlefield. As valuable as these frames are in seeking to understand
the reality of war, it is only by adding the perspectives of the individual
soldiers that one can try to complete a thorough portrait of human
conflict. That most critical and fine of lenses is the focus of this book.
This is the story of World War II from the individual soldier's view as
told by the men who fought for Italy on the Axis side and finished the
conflict as prisoners of war (POWs). Through their accounts readers see
the war as they experienced it.