Ebook: Target: Italy: the secret war against Mussolini, 1940-1943: the official history of SOE operations in fascist Italy

Tells the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. This book offers an account of SOE's clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia --;Machine generated contents note: 1.'Useless wishful thinking' -- 2.'Pottering about' -- 3.'Garibaldi's curse' -- 4.'Desperados' and 'Thugs' -- 5.'A mass of difficulties' -- 6.'More or less a suicide job' -- 7.'Rather a scatterbrained project' -- 8.'An ideal subversive organisation' -- 9.'Things seem to be going according to plan ... ' -- 10.'As much alarm as possible' -- 11.'The Explosive Topo Lads' -- 12.'Big and serious stuff' -- 13.'The man who fell from the sky' -- 14.'Inglese Ignoto' -- 15.'Foreign agent'.