Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby

This is a brilliant memoir of an Englishman's time as an escaped POW during World War 2. It reads almost like a novel, certainly with as many twists and turns, full of geographical details, local characters, narrow escapes and, yes, romance. The good news is Newby became a writer after the war, so there are other books for me to track down and hopefully enjoy as much as this one.