I was born in ROMA
in 20th century. I teach
Italian,
History and
Geography
in Roman public schools.
I am member of "Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti". I have written for Italian Newspapers "Il Messaggero", "Il Tempo", "Il Gazzettino di Venezia" and "Il Giornale" of Milan - http://www.ilgiornale.it/autore/gian_piero_milanetti/id=5480 - about history, culture, chronicle, politics, show business.
I become interested in aviation since I was I child, thanks to my father, Ennio Milanetti, that was an engine and armament mechanic of Italian ace Luigi Gorrini during World War II.
I wrote an historical aviation novel about Italian Regia Aeronautica. This book is beeing evalued by several publishers.
March 2010: I win the literary contest for short aviation novels - from well-known aviation publisher IBN Editore http://www.ibneditore.it/chisiamo.htm (Aviation Publisher) in Rome - "Penna alata" http://www.ibneditore.it/Vincitori%20penna%20alata_Layout%201.pdf along with the famous Italian aviation historian Nicola Malizia and other authors. The book with our short novels has been released on 1st of June 2010. The title is: "Bomba a bordo e altri racconti", by AA.VV ("Autori Vari"= various authors).
17 November 2010: My first novel - intitled: "Ménami, Mamma!" (Beat me, mama!), Roma, Alberto Gaffi Editore, 2010. ISBN9788861650787.
http://www.gaffi.it/cgi-bin/front_end/libri?id=1592 is delivered to the Italian bookshops
Producing this book took about twentythree years (yes!) and is the story of a child whose elder brother ask her mother to be beaten with the father trousers belt because he has been bad: "Mémami, mamma" means, actually: "Beat me".
April 2011 (2): My first aviation history book "Le Streghe della Notte - la storia non detta delle aviatrici sovietiche della seconda guerra mondiale" (The Night Witches - The untold story of the Soviet Airwomen of GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR), with many tenths of never issued pictures in Western countries and new informations about those patriotic Heroines, some of them collected by former KGB officers.
22 December 2011 - The second edition of the book is released. It has 326 pictures, most of them never published, and new data and information that cast new light on the feats of the Soviet airwomen and reveal who shot down Lydia Litvyak and Katya Budanova:
January 2013: IBN Publisher releases my book in English "Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War - A pictorial history". It has 505 rare pictures of the Russian aviatrixes of WWII. It is regarded as a masterpiece by famous American aviation historian, Henry Sakaida.
15 December 2015 - German tv channel ZDF releases a documentary about the Soviet Airwomen, that I helped to produce with photos, footages, and an interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-YEopXM02w&t=2389s
