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Raider: Memoirs of a Man of the Tenth MAS Flotilla (1940-1945)
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There is no longer a homeland. There is no longer order. Only men in uniform clinging to what remains of honor, even if they no longer know for whom, or why.
This is the powerful, intimate story of Elio Curti, a young man from southern Italy who, in 1940, heard Mussolini's voice on the radio declare war and watched his life change forever. Recruited into the legendary Decima Flottiglia MAS - the Italian Navy's elite unit specializing in underwater operations and naval sabotage - Curti becomes a raider, a shadow trained to strike in enemy ports under cover of darkness and silence.
From the icy waters of Gibraltar to clandestine missions in the Aegean Sea, from the daring attack on Alexandria - which sank the British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth - to night patrols on the Po River, this memoir takes the reader on a brutal and intimate journey through the collapse of a regime and the birth of a civil war.
Curti is neither a one-dimensional hero nor a villain. He is an ordinary man swept up by extraordinary circumstances, torn between military duty, loyalty to his comrades, and moral conscience. His account, written decades later, seeks neither justification nor redemption. It simply bears witness - so that future generations may know that behind every uniform lies a soul that carries its scars forever.
Silence, in the end, is all that remains for those who have lost.
A masterpiece of historical memory, Raider reveals a little-known chapter of World War II, narrated with the power and sincerity of someone who lived every explosion, every dive, every loss.
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