sidevalve,
A wonderful and heartwarming story from start to finish ! I'm glad George and others went back to see their brave helpers again when it was all over, as did Eric Newby ("Love and War in the Appenines" - "A short walk in the Hindu Kush").
He took it one stage further by marrying Wanda, his guardian angel when he was 'on the run' in Italy.
Danny.