Penny Waugh (United Kingdom) (2009/07/17): From back cover: The devastating experience of a lonely escaped prisoner who, through hungry weeks in German-occupied Italy, lost confidence and will and almost the bare wish to survive. It is an astonishing performance. With the very utmost skill, Mr Monsey shows the agonising process in a man's mind of loss of all faith in life, and his pitiful and ultimately only just successful efforts to survive. (Observer)
Not a barrel of laughs, but an engrossing book that really gripped me.
