link: http://www.wuz.it/libro/Eia-eia-alala/Pansa-Giampaolo/9788817077262.html

Note: here is a useful example to review the relevance of issues still burning in the Italy's history in the twentieth century, that is, I suggest reading this book by Gianpaolo Pansa, as an example of obiectivity that it would be desirable to be used by all, and first by me. No coincidence that the communist gangs alway challenged and prevented with violence the presentation of the books by this journalist-writer who tries to tell the truth being uncomfortable to someone.

Book Summary

In the Italy of the third millennium may it happen again the authoritarian adventure of a new Benito Mussolini? Even today Italy is a country strangled by a heavy crisis, with a caste of coward parties and a possible conflict between different classes. These similarities with the twentieth century twenties that led Giampaolo Pansa writing "Eia eia Alala", a set of ancient battle cry of the Roman legions (eia, eia) together with that of the Greek phalanges (Άλαλαzω), exhumed from fascist squads.

The story begins with the class struggle erupted between 1919 and 1922, led by Socialists and defeated by the inevitable reaction of the bourgeoisie. Black was born from red: violent extremism of the left could only result in Mussolini's march on Rome, the first step of a twenty-year smooth dictatorship. The reconstruction of Pansa revolves around a fictional character exemplary though: Edward Magni, an agrarian master of a seal between the Monferrato and the Lomellina. Brave officer in the First World War, funder of the teams in black shirt, beginning convinced of the need for a fascist revolution but gradually more and more disenchanted. Then he became a supporter of dissident squads leader Cesare Forni, considered by Mussolini an enemy to suppress. Magni is the star of a drama in the middle between the novel and the historical reenactment, full of so many figures that surround the 'Dux', a powerful nomenclature described with realism ....