Looking for recommendations for books on Gladio, and secret political fuckery in recent European history more in general.
TrueAnon's episodes on the Ilaria Alpi case ("Il Polpo", ep. 421/422) made me realize that I don't know nearly enough about my own country's recent history. That's partly because every other thing I learn about it makes my blood boil, but I guess that's not a good enough excuse.
I'm looking for something informative, but preferably that's also somewhat of an engaging read. My hamster attention span already struggles to read fiction, I literally could not get through a heavy academic book.
I read it a long time ago, but I remember feeling it did a good job with the facts, but it did kind of a sloppy job trying to weave it all into one overarching conspiracy, rather than a bunch of separate conspiracies as part of a larger system. I still think it's a good book, though.
I just realized the book there's a different book called "Unholy Alliance". I'm referring to "Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia" by Paul Williams
Oh yeah no worries I got which book you were talking about. And ok gotcha, that seems fair enough. It's often difficult to tie all the threads together when you're talking about covert operations with a bunch of different actors collaborating for different interests. It still sounds like it's worth a try.