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The article focuses on seven of the most audacious military raids in history. The U.S. Army Rangers rescued U.S. and British prisoners of war (POWs) held by the Japanese military in a camp near the town of Cabanatuan in the Philippines in 1945. Confederate Lieutenant John Singleton Mosby led the raid in Fairfax, Virginia in 1863 capturing Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton during the U.S. Civil War. German Schutzstafell (SS) captain Otto Skorzeny captured ousted Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in Gran Sasso mountain in Rome, Italy in 1943.

Reports on driving through Sicily in the new Maserati Spyder automobile. View of the landscape from the automobile; Exploration of the mountaintop town of Enna; Patterns of the hillsides.

Reports on the author's travel through cities and towns of Tuscany, Italy, driving the Mercedes-Benz CL500 automobile. Includes Tuscan hill towns; Florence; Siena. INSETS: The Mercedes-Benz CL500.;Pit stops (lodging and dining places in northern Italy)..

The article looks back at the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36 and discusses the lessons learned from this event. According to history, Italy under the leadership of Benito Mussolini invaded the Ethiopian empire of Haile Selassie in October 1935 in response to a manufactured border dispute. The League of Nations voted for sanctions against Italy. Ethiophia was defeated by the Italian troops leading to the exile of Selassie in May 1936.

The article reports that a letter bag carried by the airplane Malabar Princess, an Air India Lockheed L-749 Constellation that crashed on Mont Blanc in the Alps in 1950, has been recovered. Other subjects considered include salvage efforts to recover wreckage from the airplane, the disaster in popular culture, and efforts to record and preserve the letters found as well as efforts to deliver the letters to the descendants of the people to whom they were addressed.