The presentation of the Commission on Caporetto final report to Parliament, in 1919, marked the end of Cadorna’s career and public life. But not the end of a new battle for his reputation. His monumental account of his own performance as commander, published in 1921 (War on the Italian Front), was a first rejoinder to what he saw as a campaign of vituperation with the blessing and backing of governments in Rome. This quarrelsome, bitter struggle was ended by Fascism. The regime was eager to patch up the old rifts of civil war (meaning 1914, but also 1919–1922); above all, it sought to gather as much consensus as it could. The time had come, it decided, to quell all controversy surrounding the ‘Cadorna affair’. On 4th November 1924 the former Chief was raised to the new top rank in the army. It must be said that the aged general keenly appreciated the honours bestowed on him by the new war-mongering fascist Italy. But the long civil war, setting in on the heels of world conflict, triggered a process of hypostatization, turning him into an icon, a paladin, or an insensitive, blood-thirsty criminal.