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Born September 28, 1871 • Italy
Died November 1, 1956 (aged 85) • Italy
Title / Office prime minister (1943-1944), Italy • viceroy (1936), Ethiopia • governor (1928-1934), Libya
Role In Battle of Caporetto • Italo-Ethiopian War • Italo-Turkish War • World War I • World War II

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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator
Diaz, Armando
Armando Diaz
Italian general
Rodolfo Graziani, marquess di Neghelli
Italian military officer
George S. Patton
George Patton
United States general
Philippe Pétain
Philippe Pétain
French general
Walton H. Walker
American military officer
Dietrich, Sepp
Josef Dietrich
German military officer
William Hood Simpson
United States general
John Harding, Baron Harding of Petherton
John Harding, Baron Harding of Petherton
British military officer
Władysław Sikorski
Władysław Sikorski
Polish statesman
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck
British general
Frank Berryman
Australian Army officer
Dill
Sir John Greer Dill
British field marshal
Paul Hausser, German Waffen-SS commander, World War II.
Paul Hausser
German military officer
William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
British field marshal
Galeazzo Ciano, conte di Cortellazzo
Italian diplomat
Cadorna, Luigi
Luigi Cadorna
Italian general
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Giulio Douhet
Italian general
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando.
Vittorio Orlando
prime minister of Italy

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