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2 unusual facts about Paolo Caccia Dominioni


Paolo Caccia Dominioni

During his engineer's career in prewar Egypt, he developed a deep friendship with the Belgian expatriate Vladimir Peniakoff – later to be known as Popsky, creator and leader of a World War II SAS special unit nicknamed Popsky Private Army (PPA) – with whom he toured the Libyan and Egyptian desert: the same desert that would see few years later the two friends facing each others as enemies when World War II broke out.

His book on the Italian Campaign in North Africa, Alamein 1933-1962, was translated into English and published by Allen & Unwin in 1986 as Alamein 1933-1962: An Italian Story.



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