A key meeting between Mussolini and Hitler near Salzburg in 1944 which 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 two courageous diplomats to divert over 700,000 anti-Nazi Italian prisoners of war, most of whom were being used as forced labour in the camps. Thanks to newly discovered documents and first-hand accounts, journalist, author and historian 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 asuccessful effort to reconstruct history in a book of intrigue thatreads like a spy story.
Corriere della Sera