A war memoir to remember from the dapper and durable TV report Alan Whicker, who recounts his grandstand view of the Italian campaign and its commanders - Monty, Alexander and Mark Clark - from the beaches of Salerno and Anzio to the Alps via Monte Cassino, Rome and Florence.

Alan Whicker is the dapper and durable TV personality who has reported on the wealthy and the wacky for half a century. In this typically suave and entertaining war memoir, he recounts his own truly amazing experiences of the Italian campaign - when he worked as a cameraman and director of the Army’s Film Unit. Here, he retraces his footsteps from the beaches of Salerno and Anzio, through the gruelling battle of Monte Cassino, the bungled liberation of Rome, and on to the grim slogging struggle for central and northern Italy as the Anglo-Americans battled their way from Florence to Milan and the Alps. Whicker really did see history in the making, rubbing shoulders with commanders such as Monty and Alexander and the vain US General Mark Clark, whom he filmed entering Rome - yet blames for his failure to trap Kesselring’s armies when he had the chance. Himself not lacking in vanity, the author’s disarming charm makes this a memoir to remember.

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Product Code:	10967
Author:	Alan Whicker
Format:	259pp, b/w and colour photographs, sb. Published Price £7.99
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