Chiocchetti domenico (1 resultados)

Soft Card Covers. Condición: VG++/VG++/ND. n Reprint. SOFTBACK PAMPHLET SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus ?* Impression: 1st ?* Date of Publication: Not known.* Publisher:The * Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers, dark brown text & vignette on a pale orange background. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. Staple bound with minimal rust. Showing no shelf price. No marks to covers. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or inscriptions, no tanning. FINE* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 16 pp. text. * Product Description : Camp 60 housed, in the later years of the second world war several hundred Italian prisoners. These men captured during the North African campaign, were sent to Orkney to work on the Churchill Barrier, a massive series of concrete causeways which seal the approach to Scapa Flow. Domenico Chiochetti collected a small band of helpers and built a chapel at one end of one of the nissen huts which was given over to them to use as canteen and for worship. He worked alone and with some help to produce the chapel which stands to this day and which he gifted to the people of Orkney when he returned to his home after the war. He returned in the 1960's and was welcomed by the inhabitants. ORKNEY'S ITALIAN CHAPEL P.O.W. CHAPEL PRESERVATION COMMITTEE Published by ORCADIAN LIMITED.* A NEAR FINE copy with minimal age reducing it to VG++*.…