Cover of Marco Soggetto’s new book on prisoner escapes through the Western Alps; at right, the author

In April 2012, while researching escapes of Allied prisoners of war who travelled from Italy to Switzerland through the grand Western Alps, Marco Soggetto shared a message with visitors to this site in “A Daring Escape through the Alps.”

At least one of the prisoners who escaped over the mountains had been interned in Camp 59 at Servigliano—British rifleman Charles John P. Bradford.

Marco’s book is now in print. I asked him to write a summary of the work that I could post on this site:

Braccati. Prigionieri di guerra alleati in Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta
By Marco Soggetto

Aviani & Aviani Editori, Udine, December 2013

They were frantic, alone, starving, and abandoned in a foreign land overturned by a terrible civil war and occupied by a cruel enemy. Words can scarcely describe the incredible odyssey of the 80,000 prisoners of war who escaped from Italian camps after the Armistice.

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