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This is the main book being discussed in the episode. James Holland is the guest, and Tom reads passages from the book describing the Allied invasion of Italy. The book covers the battle for Italy in 1943 and is described as recently published and available for Christmas.

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James Holland mentions this book when discussing conditions in Naples, describing it as 'Norman Lewis's great diary that he kept' and 'a brilliantly vivid account of someone who absolutely has his humanity very much intact and is just sort of destroyed by what he sees and the kind of sort of awful tragedy he witnesses.'