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80 YEARS AGO TODAY, the 27th of April 1945, Benito Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans in the town of Dongo on Lake Como. During the night his fugitive convoy from Milan had been reinforced by a force of two hundred men of the German Luftwaffe in retreat. The combined column had been...

80 YEARS AGO TODAY, the 18th of April 1945, the fate of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini hung in the balance. In a desperate attempt to evade the advancing Allied forces and the vengeful partisans he fled his villa on Lake Garda together with his German bodyguards and loyal supporters. A...

From my publisher, Fonthill Media: 'Are you enjoying BBC's TV prgramme "SAS Rogue Heroes II?" If you want to know what happened to Colonel Stirling and Lt-Col. Paddy Mayne, then "SAS in ITALY 1943-1945" by Malcolm Tudor is the book for you! This is the story of Britain’s elite special force in...

The downfall of a dictator, abandonment by his allies, and the total collapse of his regime in less than a fortnight! Not Assad and Syria now but Mussolini in the closing days of the Second World War in Italy ... On the 30th of April 1945 "The New York Times reported that ‘Mussolini his...

ON THIS DAY IN ITALY IN1943 ~The 8th of September ~ terms of Armistice and Surrender signed in secret five days earlier by the Italians in Sicily were made public. The Allies had landed on the coast of Calabria. The Germans occupied the rest of the country and soon installed the deposed dictator...

ON THIS DAY IN ITALY IN1943 ~The 8th of September ~ terms of Armistice and Surrender signed in secret five days earlier by the Italians in Sicily were made public. The Allies had landed on the coast of Calabria. The Germans occupied the rest of the country and soon installed the deposed dictator...

ON THIS DAY IN ITALY IN 1943 ~The 8th of September ~ terms of Armistice and Surrender signed in secret five days earlier by the Italians in Sicily were made public. The Allies had landed on the coast of Calabria. The Germans occupied the rest of the country and soon installed the deposed...

ON THIS DAY IN 1943 (the 25th of July) Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a palace coup and replaced by Marshal Pietro Badoglio as the King assumed command of the Armed Forces. Gradually the news arrived at the camps across Italy holding thousands of British and Allied...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Malcolm-Edward-Tudor/author/B001KCHTWO Over twenty years of researching and writing about Italy during WW2 are distilled into my military history books. Five of the books are in paperback: 'British Prisoners of War in Italy: Paths to Freedom,' 'Beyond the Wire,'...

ON THIS DAY IN 1945 Benito Mussolini fled Milan after the failure of peace talks with his Resistance enemies under the mediation of the Cardinal Archbishop. Giving the order ‘We leave immediately for Como,’ the dictator led a long convoy out of the city in his Alfa Romeo. He was accompanied by...

ON THIS DAY IN 1945 Benito Mussolini fled Milan after the failure of peace talks with his Resistance enemies under the mediation of the Cardinal Archbishop. Giving the order ‘We leave immediately for Como,’ the dictator led a long convoy out of the city in his Alfa Romeo. He was accompanied by...

ON THIS DAY IN 1945 Benito Mussolini fled his villa on Lake Garda together with his German bodyguards and leading supporters in an attempt to escape the advancing Allied armies. However, he was captured by Italian partisans on the 27th of April and shot next day alongside his young lover...

The Italian Fascist dictator fled his villa on Lake Garda together with his leading supporters and German bodyguards on the 18th of April 1945 in an attempt to escape the advancing Allied armies. He was captured in Dongo on Lake Como on the 27th and shot next day alongside his young lover...

The results of over twenty years researching and writing about wartime Italy are distilled into my military history books. Three of the titles are available in Kindle from Amazon and five more are in paperback and two in hardcover. The eBooks books are available from Amazon sites worldwide...

This is an insightful review from the United States of my new book on Mussolini. WILLIAM (BILL) CORVO, the son of Major Max Corvo, Operations Officer of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Secret Intelligence in wartime Italy, writes: ' I have just completed my reading of Malcolm Tudor's...

In a surprise radio message on the evening of the 8th of September 1943, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, head of the Military Government which had replaced Mussolini, announced the Armistice and Surrender of the Italian Forces to General Dwight D Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces. The...

https://www.emiliapublishing.com/mussolini-last-days.php https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mussolini-Last-10-Days-Investigation/dp/1915292867/ Paperback and Kindle ... Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini fled his villa on Lake Garda together with his German bodyguards and leading supporters on...

It certainly is, Bob. With an Italian mother and grandparents involved in the Resistance and a British father who was a soldier with the 8th Army from Sicily to the Alps it might be said to be my mission statement. After a timeline, glossary, and chapter on unconventional warfare, there's an...

A very nice message, thank you.

Over twenty years of researching and writing about wartime Italy are distilled into my books. Five of the titles are available in paperback: 'British Prisoners of War in Italy: Paths to Freedom,' 'Beyond the Wire,' 'Escape from Italy 1943-45,' 'At War in Italy 1943-1945,' and 'Mussolini, the...