CONTENTS

Foreword by Forrest P. Patton, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Marine Corps Reserve (Ret.)

Introduction: The First Casualty of War

1		Crossing a 20th Century Rubicon
2		Flying Rats
3		A Modern Gallic War
4		King Of Beasts By The Tail
5		Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
6		Desert Fox In A Henhouse
7		Mare Nostro
8		The Duce’s Dolphins
9		Hercules Spurned
10		Unacknowledged Victory
11		Sunshine from Italy
12		Middle Age Crisis
13		North African Finale
14		Mussolini Island
15		The Ordeal of Blood
16		Day of the Lion
17		An Unlikely Pen-Pal
18		The Italian Atomic Bomb
19		Could Mussolini Have Won His War?

Notes

Selected Bibliography