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WOLF ON THE MOUNTAIN

	Whilst the activities during the Second World War of the resistance groups in France and the countries to the north of it have been regularly portrayed on the printed page and on the screen, little is generally known about what happened in Italy after the armistice in September 1943 by which its government withdrew from the war and following which Hitler’s army invaded and occupied the country. Wolf on the Mountain, which is based on detailed research in both London and Italy, is set against the backdrop of the Italian resistance movement which then sprang up and in which many hundreds of British and Commonwealth prisoners-of-war liberated by the armistice, but who were unable to escape through the German front-line to their own army, became involved. Anthony Paul is an Oxford graduate who has lived and worked in London, where he now lives, Singapore and Australia. Over the years he has had poems published in various periodicals, but this is his first work of fiction.
Amazon UK Amazon US	ISBN 190462359X £10.99 $21.99 pages 260 by Anthony Paul
Wolf on the Mountain is a story set in wartime Italy. In December 1943 the Germans attack a partisan camp in the Abruzzo mountains behind the Cassino battle-line and one man, a fugitive British prisoner-of-war, escapes. Captain Robert Johnson becomes Roberto DiGiovanni, an Italian peasant who can move as a local in the snowbound mountains protected by the communist underground. They endure manhunts and reprisals, informers and treachery, political manoeuvring between communists and fascist sympathisers, bombing raids and growing famine as modern warfare takes its toll on a poor farming community. Everybody is forced to adapt. The communist and fascist families who protect him, the daughter of the fascist family who falls in love with him, the doctor who attends his wounds, the village priest and the proud peasants have to adapt their loyalties in order to survive. But can these new loyalties endure?