" As commander of II Corps, Bradley had an unexpected problem to tackle: the deluge of Italian prisoners. During a single week in Sicily, the number of these prisoners comfortably exceeded the total taken during the whole of the First World War. Many of them were described as being ‘in a mood of fiesta … filling the air with laughter and song’. Some American units were obliged to post signs saying ‘No Prisoners Accepted Here’ or advising those wishing to give themselves up to come back another day. "

― John Julius Norwich , Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History