Where The Hell Have You Been: Monty, Italy and One Man's Incredible Escape

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'A terrific read' Andy McNab

In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone, he was the stepson of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the Allied Commander who had just inflicted the first defeat on the Third Reich.

This gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy. Having decided to risk making his way back to Allied HQ in the south, he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory, evading capture again and again and ultimately being saved by a family of brave Italians who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to hide him.

In the winter of 1943, a year after he disappeared, he staggered back into Army HQ, to be greeted by his stepfather with the words, 'Where the hell have you been'

This is a great adventure story - a reminder of a lost age, and of a generation forced to rise to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.

'Riveting and remarkable' Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat

'This account is a gem. It reminds one of the gallantry and devotion to duty of a generation that has left us.' Patrick Cordingley, Commander of the Desert Rats, Iraq, 1991

Where the Hell Have You Been provides a completely new way of seeing the prickly old warrior, Monty' The Daily Telegraph

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An utterly compelling account of how one POW kept his identity secret from the Nazis and evaded capture, relying on the bravery and kindness of strangers. A terrific read.
One man's extraordinary odyssey of escape through wartime Italy: riveting and remarkable.
Tom Carver's excellent book gives us a better understanding why our most well known World War II General was the complex man he was.
An escape story in the finest English tradition. Beautifully written and poignant to the end - deserves to become an instant classic, * BBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent *
This account of Monty's step-son's exploits in the Second World War is a gem. It reminds one of the gallantry and devotion to duty of a generation that has nearly left us.

Author Bio

Tom Carver was a long-time foreign correspondent with the BBC. He was latterly the BBC's Washington Correspondent and continues to live in Washington working as a writer and consultant. He is the step-grandson of Field Marshal Montgomery.