Richard Carver's gruelling three-month journey of over 400 miles (650km) on foot, from the prison north of Parma to the allied lines south of the Sangro river, forms the meat of this book written by his son, Tom, a former BBC correspondent.
It seems written in curving steel that Gehry's increasingly ubiquitous twisting, bristling and arched forms will be recognized as the stylistic signature of our era, just as we recognize the period of Wright, Wren or Michelangelo.