When travel writer Allen Maslen's partner, Lesley, slipped into the conversation that she has two war heroes in the family; one great-grandfather who won the Victoria Cross in the first world war, and a grandfather who was killed by friendly fire in the second world war and is buried somewhere in Italy, the only logical thing to do was jump in the car and drive three thousand miles across Europe to find out more.
This book follows the couple on a month-long road trip through France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Luxembourg, around the hairpin bends of the Alps, via the canals of Venice to the Adriatic coast, and culminates with an incredible discovery in the first world war trenches of northern France.
This book follows the couple on a month-long road trip through France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Luxembourg, around the hairpin bends of the Alps, via the canals of Venice to the Adriatic coast, and culminates with an incredible discovery in the first world war trenches of northern France.
