Many thanks go to my literary agent in London, Andrew Lownie, and to my editors Tom Dunne and Will Anderson at Thomas Dunne Books in New York. And to the staff at various Archives and Museums of the Liberation and Resistance across northern and central Italy, especially in Imperia, Trieste, Turin and Rimini, and at the Museum to the Liberation and Resistance at Via Tasso in Rome. I am very grateful also to Ivan Houston and the veterans of the 92nd U.S Infantry Division, to Ken Inouye and the Daniel K.Inouye Institute, Commodore Sanjay Chaubey, formerly Defence Attache at the Indian Embassy in Rome, and to the Veterans of Canada Association in Vancouver, British Columbia. Many thanks to Simon and Toby Churchill, sons of Major Oliver Churchill DSO MC, formerly of the Special Operations Executive. And to Andrea Cominini, and to the last surviving Italian resistance fighters of that era. Lastly, I’m grateful as ever to the members of my family, particularly my brothers Anthony, James, and Martin, and my sister Perpetua.