Chapter 19
D'Aiazzo had asked the eight soldiers to sit in front of him in a senicircle. The two who had been slightly injured in the clash with the German grenadiers were wearing bandages. One of them, a bersagliere, around a forearm because of a graze, the other, a corporal truck driver, on his the head for a nick on the forehead.
The Deputy Commissioner had again asked for their personal details, one by one, and had typed them, comparing them with the ones he had marked in his diary on the evening of September 30, To get a better idea, he had asked each of them for their level of education: almost all had not gone beyond compulsory schooling, but a seaman in the Navy originally from Camogli, called Annibale Bacci, had said that he had obtained the diploma of master mariner in a mercha
