I am a historian of the Second World War and the aim of this site is to enable others to access some of the research I have carried out over the past few years, and to encourage people to exchange ideas and views about a wide range of subjects relating to the conflict. On this site you will find an oral history archive with transcriptions of many of the interviews I have conducted with veterans of the war from many different countries, and there are also blogs, comment pieces, book reviews, suggested reading, and also contributions from other leading historians in this field.
I hope you find it interesting.

James Holland

Blog - Friday 21st May 2004

Diary of Writing Italy’s Sorrow

Rome, May 22, 2004
Back to Rome again and made my way to Wolf’s apartment in the hills north of the Tiber.  Wolf has German parents, was brought up in Canada, and has married an Italian.  His uncle-in-law ended up as a general in the Carabinieri,  but in the war led a number of Italians over a treacherous snow-covered mountain to escape German occupation.  Like many young men, he neither wanted to be drafted into the Neo-Fascist Army or become a German labourer.  Back home in the evening.

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