Many Italian soldiers simply didn't want to fight for Mussolini and were more than willing to surrender to anybody . I spoke to an English veteran of the Italian war once who told me how fifty Italian soldiers came out of nowhere with their hands up and surrendered to him and his friend one afternoon. If anybody knew this fella they would have thought that Mrs Astor might have been on to something after all . Him and his pal found the surrender very inconvenient because they had been on their way to visit a house of ill-repute at the time.
The Cam River is the crooked river if it retains its name from the old Celtic . Does it become any less crooked when it becomes the Grantia?