Soldiers of the Strange Night

During the night of September 14, 1943, an estimated 3,000 Allied prisoners of war escaped from Camp 59, Servigliano, Italy, under the mistaken impression that friendly forces were only days away. In reality, the Allied armies did not reach that region of Italy for nine harrowing months. Drawing on interviews, letters, and accounts written by survivors, as well as war crimes files, "Soldiers of the Strange Night" vividly recreates not only one American soldier's journey into war, imprisonment, evasion and murder, but also the aftermath of the escape as seen through the eyes of his fellow warriors and the valiant Italian family that sustained him during the final days of his life. This is a tribute to these remarkably heroic and resilient men who did their duty while facing impossible adversity.