Italy’s Secret Surrender during World War II

If This Folder Could Talk

The saga that preconditioned the wartime use of a nondescript cardstock folder in a collection at the George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia “reads like the most improbable fiction.”

This is the story of the actors—and the folders they carried—involved in Italy’s secret surrender during World War II.

Published in the summer 2022 edition of Marshall Magazine. Read here.