Conversations With The Crow

In 1931, Italian journalist and political writer, Curzio Malaparte, published a book in Italy entitled TECHNIQUE DU COUP D'ÊTAT. This work was based on his own personal observation of the activities in Russia at the time of the Revolution, Poland at the time of the Bolshevik invasion of 1920 and Berlin during the Kapp putsch. Malaparte was an early supporter of Mussolini and had first-hand knowledge of the means by which Il Duce had come to power in 1922. Malaparte’s work studies the successful, and unsuccessful, Coups d’Etat or seizure of power and clearly demonstrates that rather than a political movement, a Coup is a political weapon which can be wielded by skilled hands against any country at any time in its history. Banned in the United States in the 1932 as too controversial, this very important work that should prove to be of interest to any student of both politics and history. What is past is prologue.