Hugo Pratt, author of the comic book series “Corto Maltese”, is one of the celebrities registered in the archives of the Central Prisoners of War Agency. At age 10, Hugo left Italy with his mother to join his father, Rolando Prat, in Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia). Rolando, a career soldier, had been stationed there following Benito Mussolini’s 1935 invasion. When the Second World War...
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