Aviation Pioneer and Protagonist of the War of Liberation The volume offers an extraordinary cross-section of the history of the Royal Air Force through the figure of one of its most significant protagonists, Renato Sandalli. Built upon extensive biographical, documentary, and commemorative research, the work recounts the General's entire personal and professional journey, intertwining it with the fundamental junctures of 20th-century national and military history. One of the volume's main merits, in fact, is to fill a gap in the historiography of the Air Force: while the co-belligerence phase with the Allies has already been widely documented, an in-depth reconstruction of high-level decisions in the crucial days preceding and following the armistice was missing.