Edgardo Sogno

During World War II, Sogno worked to resist Nazi forces and Fascists in Italy. He was captured four times, but each time was rescued by Allied forces. In his most daring operation, Sogno dressed up as a German officer and walked into a Milan hotel. He walked out with an Italian prisoner of war. He also helped lead hundreds of Italian Jews to safety in Switzerland. After the war, he became a diplomat and was posted to Argentina, France, the U.S., England, and Hungary -- where, during the 1956 Soviet assault on Budapest to put down an anti-Communist uprising, Sogno went back to work as a resistance fighter, helping the uprising's leaders to flee the country. Sogno died August 5 at home in Turin from heart failure. He was 85. From This is True for 6 August 2000 Suggestions for further reading: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and A... by Ben Macintyre Amazon Price: Customer Review: A detailed recounting of one of the greatest espionage operations of World War II--convincing German intelligence that a dead body that washed up on the shores of Spain was a British soldier carrying authentic, secret documents outlining the Allied p...   Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre Amazon Price: Customer Review: I couldn't put my Kindle down so long as there was another page to read. This is a story so incredible, that had it not been real life, I would have laughed it off as a poor and totally impossible fiction. Ben Macintyre has presented the facts in suc...   Red Chaser by Jon Spoelstra Amazon Price: Customer Review: I lived in New York City in the late 40's. I remember taking the Staten Island Ferry to the subway and thence to Yankee Stadium, getting into the bleachers with my high school G.O. card for 35 cents. This story was pure nostalgia for me, with the e...   The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of Wo... by Patrick K. O'Donnell Amazon Price: Customer Review: Having lived in Austria and having traveled the Brenner Pass to Italy, I was deeply moved by the descriptive realism and empathetic conveyance of character Patrick K. O'Donnell brings to his pages. His detailed academic research is evident in ever...   Enigma: The Battle for the Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Amazon Price: Customer Review: I have a great interest in the Battle of the Atlantic part of World War Two. My expectation was that this book would shed important light on how that part of the war was fought and I was not disappointed. The book is very richly researched with a f...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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