Paolo Crippa (April 23, 1978) holds a degree in Management Engineering, but cultivates a passion for military history, Italian armored units of World War II. In 2006, he published "I Reparti Corazzati della Repubblica Sociale Italiana", the first research in Italy on the subject, which was followed by around thirty books with leading Italian military history publishers. Since 2019, he has collaborated with Luca Cristini Editore on the "Witness to War" serie and has been its Director since 2020. He has authored fifty articles for magazines, appeared on RAI radio and online television programs, and collaborates with Associazione Nazionale Carristi d'Italia and Associazione Nazionale Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia.