Leslie Gardiner recalls a return to the place of his war-time escape.
'Ribbons of mule-track . . . all tangled up with ideas of lost youth and romantic adventure in an Italy where it was always morning - morning and a teenage boy going places over the high pastures.
' " A date inscribed in the memory." says the café proprietor. "That day the British brought down 800,000 cannon. In every olive tree was a man with a machine gun. Church-hill himself ordered it." BBC Scotland