Time At War By Nicholas Mosley

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Although Nicholas Mosley has written two volumes of family biography & a volume of memoirs, he has, until now, avoided writing about his World War Two experiences. How does one write about something both horrifying & rewarding? There was also the role played by his tangled relationship with his father. The son of sir Oswald Mosley, who, as the leader of the British Union of Fascists, had been jailed with his second wife, Diana (one of the Mitford sisters), early on in the war ostensibly as a security risk. Nicholas was never-the-less dispatched to join his regiment, the Rifle Brigade, as the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula. He came of age in the forcing house of war but there was always the question of what would have been his situation had he been captured by the Germans? At one point in the Italian campaign this very nearly happened. How Nicholas got away & survived is an example of how sometimes fact can be more bizarre than fiction.