Reviews for Storia delle Forze armate italiane

The average rating for Storia delle Forze armate italiane based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-01-29 00:00:00 Sean Ross No real analysis here, but this book deserves its four stars for the way in which it exposed the relationship between Italian secret services, neo-fascists, and elements in the the western establishment, all before the Gladio scandal hit the fan as the Cold War ended.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-08 00:00:00 Carolyn Robinsky 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.