Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 [Hardcover]

Philip Rees (Author)

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• Hardcover: 422 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First edition (February 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130893013
• ISBN-13: 978-0130893017
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #904,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars a not so punctual text, May 21, 1998

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This review is from: Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 (Hardcover)

In the choice of the sources, it doesn't follow the historical mainstream; so it can fall in some mistake. For example, under the lemma "FINZI, Aldo" you can find that Herbert Kappler was "the German police chief in Rome who was later helped by Roman Catholic priests to escape in 1977 from the island of Gaeta". Actually, Kappler escaped from the Celio military hospital, in Rome, and it's the first time I hear about a plot involving priests in his flight (neither this circumstance has ever appeared in the criminal inquiry). Above all, every traveller on the Tyrrenean sea can give evidence about the absence of an island in front of Gaeta, whose military jail is strongly anchored to the land...