Colin Burbidge

In Autumn 1943, Ian Reid, an officer in the Black Watch, escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Italy, and began a dangerous journey. Sixty years later his son sets out to follow in his father's footsteps across Italy.

The story of the effect of the First World War on The Lee, a Buckinghamshire village, based on the village magazine. The Lee Magazine was introduced by the lord of the manor, Sir Arthur Liberty, the founder of the Regent Street store.