in addition to those who have asked to remain nameless-- ProfessorG.
Baldini, Fr J. A. Barrett, S.J., Lord Beaverbrook, Signor Peitro Beneven-
tano, Sir Noel Charles, Brigadier R. C. Edge, Professor Vittorio Gabrieli,
Viscountess Hambleden, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, the late Sir Percy
Loraine, Dr Roger Manvell, Admiral Franco Maugeri, Prof. Dott. Paolo
Milano, Signor Paolo Monelli, Conte Umberto Morra di Lavriano, Signor
Romano Mussolini, Herr Hans Pächter, Conte Novello Papafava, Sir
Charles Petrie, Herr Otto Reitsch, Signor Ernesto Ricci, Signor Dino Ros-
selli, Miss Frances Ryan, Signor Pietro Sanarelli, Mrs Joan St George
Saunders, Mr B. A. C. Sweet-Escott, Colonel Otto Skorzeny, General
Kurt Student, Colonel Hedley Vincent, Professor Roberto Weiss and
Miss Elizabeth Wiskemann. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to
Signora Linda Bertelli-Attanasio for helping me with my researches
when I was in Rome; to Mr Roy MacGregor-Hastie, who has been good
enough to provide me with information about Mussolini's family; and
to Senatore Generale Raffaele Cadorna, who has kindly helped me with
some of my final chapters. I want also to thank the staffs of the London
Library, the British Museum, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Italian
Embassy in London, the British Institute in Florence, the Biblioteca di
Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, the Biblioteca Universataria Alessan-
drina and the Generale Direzione di Accademie e Biblioteche dello
Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione.

C. H.

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