Diary 1937-1943

Galeazzo Ciano was Mussolini's foreign affairs minister and his son-in-law. He was also a meticulous journal keeper, and the first complete English translation (by Robert L. Miller and Stanislao G. Pugliese) of Galeazzo Ciano: Diary 1937-1943 records his growing disenchantment with the German alliance and with Il Duce himself. In clean, succinct prose, Ciano candidly chronicles the murderous, unscrupulous operations of Nazi leadership, especially of Hitler and von Ribbentrop. The diary was smuggled to Switzerland (in spite of Nazi attempts to capture it) after Ciano's execution for voting against Mussolini. An important document of wartime history, this book will interest students, scholars and dedicated WWII or Italian history buffs.