In September 1943 the biggest mass prison breakout in history occurred when Italy changed sides in the Second World War and signed an armistice with the Allies, providing an opportunity for 50,000 Allied PoWs to make their escape from prison camps all over Italy. They had spent up to three years enduring severe privation and sometimes inhuman treatment following capture in North Africa and transfer across the Mediterranean. Now huge numbers quietly...
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