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Cited multiple times as the primary source for the episode on Italy's role in the First World War. Tom Holland quoted from it: 'has any artist played a more baleful part in decisions that led to violence and suffering on the larger scale?' Dominic called it 'an amazing book' and said after reading it he didn't need to read anything else on the topic.

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Mentioned as the biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio, referred to as a 'brilliant book.' The hosts noted they had done a previous episode with Hughes-Hallett about D'Annunzio called 'The First Fascist.'

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Described as the only thing General Cadorna ever wrote, a pamphlet published in 1898, and because he published it he would never back down from the ideas within it, contributing to the disastrous Italian frontal assault strategy.