bought to read and release

This didn't really grab me at the start - a bit 'boy's own' type wartime adventure-ish - but it got a lot more interesting. It's autobiographical, about the author's experiences as an escaped PoW in the Appennine mountains in Italy during WW2. Interesting insights into rural Italian life at that time - there is a short postscript at the back, when the author revisited the area in 1956, and found it already substantially changed - and into the huge risks that ordinary Italians took in quiet defiance of the fascist regime.

Taking to the convention where it will be released on the book table

Picked up from the book buffet, the idea of part travelogue part romance sounded interesting.