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.

The meeting between the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Benito Mussolini at the signing of the Munish agreement, September 1938. On the right, the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.

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 …