The Polish Lesson by Indro Montanelli

In 1939, Indro Montanelli was assigned to follow a diverse group of young fascists traveling by bicycle from Italy to Germany. He was present in Berlin when Hitler announced the invasion of Poland and described those tragic events firsthand. A month later, he was in Helsinki, just in time to report on the Russo-Finnish War and champion the heroism of the Finnish people under attack by the Bolsheviks. After these frontline assignments, he was hired as a permanent war correspondent at the Corriere della Sera (January 1940). At the end of the Russo-Finnish War, he moved to Norway, even managing to witness the Nazi invasion of the country.