Dominic Sandbrook

Yeah, it's a great story, isn't it, Tom?

A great lesson in leadership, I think, for anybody.

So Alfred and his heirs, they marry idealism and pragmatism.

They're brilliant at alliances.

They're brilliant at managing power.

They're brilliant, of course, at managing their money, which is a key part of political leadership.

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I absolutely despise Danzio, to be honest with you.

I think he's one of the worst people we've ever done on The Rest Is History.

And his lunatic rhetoric, as you correctly described it, will have terrible consequences for hundreds of thousands of young Italians.

Higher things, exactly.

Yes.

And actually, we will be talking about Donunzio and Benito Mussolini, who learns a lot from Donunzio later in this episode.

But let's just explain what today's episode is all about.

So we're in the middle of this great series, epic series about the year 1915.

And this is the story of one of the bloodiest, the cruelest, the most savage of all the campaigns of the First World War.

And this is the attempt by the Italians to invade the Austro-Hungarian Empire and to carve out a little empire for themselves on the Adriatic.