Mussolini Against Hitler

How a key meeting between Mussolini and Hitler near Salzburg in 1944 changed the course of history.

Having barely survived an assassination attempt in Prussia, Hitler was visibly shaken. Mussolini, on the other hand, had already ordered the rescue of 700,000 anti-Nazi Italian prisoners of war, most of whom were being used as forced labor in the camps. The mission was carried out by a handful of officers and diplomats stationed in Berlin, who did not hesitate to defy the Gestapo.

Thanks to newly discovered documents and first-hand accounts from the children of the men involved, Alfio Caruso recounts a heroic and virtually unknown episode in WWII history.

Alfio Caruso is an epic narrator of history.
—Corrado Augias

Caruso puts a million pieces of the puzzle back together in a successful effort to reconstruct history in a book of intrigue that reads like a spy story.
—Corriere della Sera