Pansa is one of the best political historians - concentrating on the various extreme political factions, including terrorism - in Italy; and perhaps the most detached analyst of all the facts he witnessed and researched.
Clear and clean; non factious; with a background deep in the left he has not let factious interests obscure his vision and search for real truths in the evils and aftermath of post WWII; he denounces the collective excesses and crimes - as well as the dirty and shameless untruths - of a great part of the Italian extreme, and not so extreme, Left.
This book covers a horrifying period of Italian (and European) contemporary 'historia' - the utopia of armed terror. How the despicable reign of national terror and terrorism was bread in Italy.