ABSTRACT
At the end of September 1944, Capt. Michael Lees, an SOE officer with a British Mission in south-west Piedmont, left to cross the border into southern France, in order to return to base in southern Italy, leading a party which included (as well as two Italian delegates, four escaped British POWs and three evading US aircrew), a Canadian war correspondent (Capt. Paul Morton) and a South African war artist (Capt. Geoffrey Long) who had been parachuted in by SOE with Lees to observe and record scenes of partisan life in nothern Italy.
