An intriguing glimpse of a vanished military world. Myles Hildyard's letters home from World War Two provide an unusual and frank memoir of the period, as he escapes from a POW camp on Crete and then crossed the Mediterranean to Turkey. He saw some of the great archaeological and historical sites of Europe and North Africa, and made lifelong friendships. He also had a manservant and wrote about coming to terms with his sexuality. Invaluable, witty, profound and utterly captivating.