Paul McNaughton

Excellent portrayal of pure greed at its worst feeding the population with Oxycontin (opium) through greedy doctors and turning millions into drug addicts many of whom died of overdoses.

This is a shocking account of the annihilation of virtually the entire community of farmers in between the Reno river in the west and the Setta river in the east in the Apennines. It covered the area from Monte Salvaro to the town of Marzabotto and onwards to Monte Caprara and across to Monte Sole.To read Jack Ohlesn’s book, which is a brilliant recollection of the savagery Reder’s men perpetrated is an emotional experience.It is a graphic description of the repeated horrors enacted by Reder’s men in churches, houses and graveyards in every farm and village on old people, on children of all ages. The farm folk were herded together and machine guns set up to mow them down, pregnant women were shot, their unborn babies ripped from their wombs, children were impaled on spikes and hand grenades hurled into buildings to administer the coup de grace.