To War With the Black Watch
Gian Gaspare Napolitano was born in Palermo in 1907. In the 1920s and 1930s he was a well-known international journalist for Corriere della Sera. After 1943, Napolitano served as a liaison officer with the Black Watch; his experiences formed the basis of To War with the Black Watch. In the post-war years, he published a number of successful novels and was a film director and scriptwriter whose work won awards at the Berlin and Cannes film festival. He died in Rome in 1966.