510. The Italy of Dozier's Kidnapping
The Italy described by
Eva Ulian in this book is not that of postcards, but a country paralyzed by the
shadow of the Red Brigades, where the kidnapping of General Dozier was an
earthquake that revolutionized the lives of those who lived it from inside the
American base in Vicenza.
This book is a
keyhole, which spies on episodes and situations never previously narrated.
In this book you will
not find sterile political analyses, but Ulian will make you experience the
sweat on your brow, the anxiety, the fears and the anguish of moments forgotten
by time and never told how they should have been exposed.
With a prose that
alternates emotional stabbing, reflections as slow as poison and goliardic
moments, the author drags you into that underground world where the Red
Brigades were not just ghosts on the pages of newspapers, but executioners with
names and surnames.
You will read about
threats saturated with ideology and madness, about the muffled cries of the
military, about the burden of being a target in an Italy that pretended to be
normal, while Italians knew little or nothing.
These pages reveal an
Italy that has never been told: fragile, at times ruthless, defenceless, yet
capable of a resistance that no school book will ever tell.
A testimony from
someone who has lived through moments and situations that, for over forty
years, have remained a mystery.
Dr. Pasquale Di Matteo
Art Critic, Freelance Journalist
