After a long break this post comes as a News Flash! I’m giving my first public talk on Brigadier Reggie Miles for the Friends of the Turnbull on Thursday 1 September. The subject covers Miles’ incarceration in the generals’ prison Vincigliata Castle outside Florence. Yes, it does have parallels with Faulty Towers, which is not to mock the tragedy of war. Tricky stuff, but ultimately in this part of the story, it ends triumphantly in a daring escape. Come and hear more at the National Library main auditorium, 5.30, Thursday 1 September.
