Umbria 1943. Nazi troops are massacring whole villages in retaliation for help being given to even a single fugitive. The injured FitzGerald, assisted by a young widow, Lucia, organises the evasion of six hundred prisoners who go on to hide in the hi
About the Author
Hugo de Burgh was Walt Disney Chair of Media and Communications at Schwarzman College of International Relations, Tsinghua University, until 2022 and now writes full-time. He has published books on investigative journalism, Chinese affairs and media. His next novel tells the stories of Chinese students in London as hostility between the Anglophone and Chinese worlds grows.