How Italy had been drawn into the war
23rd December 1943: The former Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano's last thoughts before he faces a firing squad.
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In Italy, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and former Foreign Minister, now knew, after almost a year of imprisonment, that he faced …
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