Michelangelo's Notebook [antikvár]

PrologueJuly 22, 1942, La Spezia, The Ligurian Coast, Northern ItalyMaggiore Tiberio Bertoglio, wearing the uniform of one of the Mussolini Black Brigadescomplete with ebony shoulder boards, bloodred-and-silver double-M collar tabs and a silver-and-black skull-and-crossbones insignia on the forepeak of his regulation bustinasat in the backseat of the dusty Lancia staff car, arms crossed over his chest II Duce-style, not feeling half as grand as he looked. The uniform was a fraud. He was not in the army at aU but in the much reviled OVRA, the Organizzazione di Vigilanza Repressione dell'Antifascismothe Organization for Vigilance Against Anti-Fascism: Mussolini's secret police, the Italian gestapo.He'd flown up from Rome in a cranky old Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 that morning, the old