Chapter 15
In the night between September 27 and 28, many citizens in the various areas of Naples had crept out of their homes to join their countrymen who had already rebelled, not just replacing the patriots who had been killed, but swelling the ranks of the combatants and making the insurgence enormously popular. Some of the new rebels had come with the rifles and pistols they had in the house, which they had never handed over to the authorities despite the orders firstly from the fascist regime and then of the German commander. Many, with or without firearms, had switchblades or kitchen knives in their pockets or belts. Some had prepared Molotov cocktails with rags and gasoline, formidable in their simplicity.
On September 28 the audacity of the Neapolitan people was fully manifested
