'A remarkable record - vivid, modest, intelligent and unusually frank.' Harold Nicolson'It rings true in every sentence.' Bernard FergussonIn Jan 1944, Allied forces landed at Anzio and Nettuno on the eastern coast of Italy in the attempt to skirt the German lines and secure the passage to Rome.
In Jan 1944, Allied forces landed at Anzio and Nettuno on the eastern coast of Italy in the attempt to skirt the German lines and secure the passage to Rome. It was into this desperate situation that Raleigh Trevelyan, then a twenty-year-old subaltern, found himself leading his platoon. This book is based on Trevelyan's diaries of the time.
