Dad's War

In April 1943, officer Ian Reid was wounded and captured in Tunisia and sent off to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Five months later, when the Germans took over the camp, he escaped. So began a life-or-death game of hide and seek in the heart of the beautiful Italian countryside, living in barns, sleeping in ditches, and desperate scavenging for food. He was recaptured-- though heroically he was to escape from the Germans a total of five times. Nearly 60 years later, Howard Reid quite literally followed in his father's footsteps and made the same journey across Italy. Along the way, Howard discusses father-son relationships, and the deep but invisible scars left by two world wars on everyone's personal history.