دانلود کتاب The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini

As soon as news of the fascists' arrival spread, the local leadership
of the Arditi del popolo called a meeting with squad leaders straight
away, and gave them instructions to immediately build barricades,
trenches, and barbed wire defences, using any material available.
At dawn, when the order was given to get the guns out and
launch the insurrection, working-class people took to the streets -
as bold as the waters of a river which is bursting its banks ... Men,
women, old people, young people from all parties and from no
party at all were all there, united in a single iron will - resist and
fight ...
In the early hours of day six we were informed from reliable
sources that the fascist leadership had decided to launch a major
attack ... At seven the following morning our observers noticed
columns moving from one point on the outskirts to another in a
confused and disorderly fashion ... The fascists, who were by this
stage no longer in military formation, were roaming about in all
directions in a great rush- with no command structure - jumping
onto trains that were leaving, onto lorries, bicycles, or on foot.
This wasn't a retreat, but the scattering of large groups of men
who clambered aboard any means of transport they found, or who
ran through the streets, or into the countryside, as if they were
frightened of being chased. 1