Stefano delle Chiaie Book

I guess the best compliment I can pay this little volume is that I used parts of it that relate to neo-fascist links in white Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa as references in my new book Drinking with Ghosts: the Aftermath of Apartheid's Dirty War (BestRed, Cape Town, 2014). But the reader has to be impressed at how veteran Scottish hardcore anarchist Stuart Christie tracked his quarry, the nasty little Italian neo-Fascist terrorist Sefano Delle Chiaie and his blackshirt network in Europe, Latin America and further abroad, using only the documentary evidence and personal anti-fascist intelligence networks of the pre-Internet era. Not overarchingly analytical, but an important contribution to our understanding of the NATO-groomed Gladio stay-behind networks in Italy including the failed 1970 Prince Valerio Borghese coup d'etat, and, as a surprising gem, details on the plotters behind the barely-known stillborn British coup d'etat of 1974.