this country is at war with Germany. We shall go on to the end. I remember the

sheets of plane which came up and almost blinded us for my guns.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War Two podcast. I'm

Manks Wallace. Rudolfo Graziani, Marshal of Italy,

Viceroy of Ethiopia and one of Mussolini's most valued generals remains to

this day a diverse figure in his homeland, revered by some Italians as a

patriot and vilified by others as a murderer. From the allied perspective he was the

Italian general whose troops surrendered on mass to the British during Operation

Compass which almost not the Italians out of North Africa in 1941. But what is the

true story of Rudolfo Graziani? Today I'm joined by James Cetrullo. James

has translated for the first time from Italian the biography Rudolfo Graziani,

story of an Italian general written by Alessandro Gouver. Now this podcast is

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