Following the controversial television documentary on Mussolini's death by Peter Tompkins aired on Italian television RAI-3 Channel on August 30 and September 6, entitled Mussolini: The Final Truth this book by veteran Italian journalist and researcher Luciano Garibaldi provides sensational additional revelations that were not covered in the two part series. British commentators have taken exception to the suggestion that Churchill was behind an SOE operation to execute Mussolini in a Times article by Richard Owen on August 28, 2004. Many startling questions remain: Did Mussolini have a final card to play on April 25, 1945? Why did he suddenly leave Milan heading toward Como and taking the longer more dangerous road along the Swiss border? Did he have a secret rendez-vous with Sir James Henderson, the brother of Ambassador Neville Henderson? Was Mussolini's death a summary execution by Italian partisans acting on behalf of a British Special Force (SOE)? Was a British officer in charge of the partisan unit? Why did the British want Mussolini dead while the Americans and OSS officers make efforts to capture him alive? The new documentary does not mention two very important points: the proximity off Lake Como of the estate of an old British friend of Mussolini's, Sir James Henderson with whom he was in contact. And the fact that 65 kilos of gold bullion and other valuables in the Mussolini convoy were actually part of the belongings of Italian Jews stolen by Fascist authorities. Mussolini wanted to use those valuables to bargain his way to safety. In the confusion of those days a time, prior to the Marshall Plan, Italy was viewed in the West as dangerously close to becoming a Soviet satellite. In the words of Churchill to Anthony Eden in February 1945: ?I hope we may still save Italy from the Bolshevik pestilence.? It is well documented that Winston Churchill in his determination to destroy Nazism and fascism was not averse to resort to assassination when necessary. But why would the victorious British Prime Minister, one of the Big Three holding the destinies of the world in their hands by 1945, then order or agree to the secret execution of the fallen Italian dictator who was by then nothing more than a satellite of Nazi Germany? In this remarkably well-researched work of historical detection, Italian journalist Luciano Garibaldi provides a fascinating description of the main theories surrounding Mussolini's death. He centers on very elusive material commenting upon the scenarios offered by other investigators and focusing on the forensic aspects that contradict the time and place of death in the official version. About the author: Born in Rome in 1936, Luciano Garibaldi is a veteran journalist and historian and the author of many articles on the Second World War. He is the author of many works of historical research specializing in Italian fascism and Mussolini. His most important titles are: Mussolini e il Professore 1982 (The biography and diaries of Carlo Alberto Biggini, law professor and fascist minister of education); Le soldatesse di Mussolini (Mussolini's Women Soldiers); Enciclopedia del fascismo 1998 (Encyclopedia of fascism); Vita Col Duce 2000,(Life with the Duce: an autobiography by Mussolini's orderly); A Century of War; L'Altro italiano, Edgardo Sogno. Mr. Garibaldi is also the author of many investigative reports and articles published in major Italian magazines. He lives and works in Milan.