Susan Jacobs: Fighting with the enemy

Following the Italian surrender of 1943, around 450 New Zealand POWs escaped from prison camps and fled into the countryside. Some were recaptured, some were killed. Other joined forces with the Italian resistance, groups that formed to fight the Nazi occupation. Jacobs delivers a poignant, fascinating and little known story of New Zealand heroism and the Italians who risked all to help our boys.

* Penguin, $34.95