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  • The Italian Resistance

    Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies

    par Tom Behan ...
    One of the enduring myths about World War Two is that the Allies alone liberated occupied Europe. However, many countries had successful anti-fascist movements, and Italy's was one of the biggest and most politically radical. Yet it remains relatively unknown outside of its own homeland.Tom Behan tells this inspiring history. Within Italy many plaques and streets commemorate the actions of the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Camorra

    Political Criminality in Italy

    par Tom Behan ...
    Over the last twenty years the camorra of Naples and the surrounding region has risen to a level of strength rivalling that of the Sicilian mafia.This is not a new organization: the Camorra first emerged in the last century, several decades before the mafia. Tom Behan traces the history of the organization from its inception to the present. Until the 1970s the extent of its influence fluctuated, ... En savoir plus

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  • A History of Contemporary Italy

    1943-80

    par Paul Ginsborg ...
    In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as ... En savoir plus

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  • Mussolini's Grandchildren

    Fascism in Contemporary Italy

    par David Broder ...
    'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historianThe dominant force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia — a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war around national identity, polarised political debate around ... En savoir plus

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  • Sacrifice on the Steppe

    The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943

    par Hope Hamilton ...
    The tragic story of the Italians sent to the USSR by Mussolini—and the only division of elite mountain soldiers who didn't completely perish.When Germany's Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its allied armies—the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter ... En savoir plus

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  • Cosa Nostra

    The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia

    par John Dickie ...
    COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity.The mafia has been given many names since it was founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for ... En savoir plus

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  • Saving Italy

    The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

    par Robert M. Edsel ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom BrokawWhen Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Italians

    par John Hooper ...
    **Washington Post bestsellerLos Angeles Times bestsellerA vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent**How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover?John Hooper’s entertaining and perceptive new book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Bold and Dangerous Family

    The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism

    From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter**, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini's fascism helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars.**"I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a newspaper: they closed it. I had a university chair: I was forced to abandon it. I had—as I still do—dreams, dignity, ideals: to defend them I was sent ... En savoir plus

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  • Mussolini: History in an Hour

    par Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.‘Il Duce’, Benito Mussolini, was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism. Famed for his dictatorial style, his political cunning and admired – initially – by Hitler, Mussolini led the National Fascist Party and ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. In so doing, he paved the way towards Italy’s defeat in ... En savoir plus

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  • Mussolini's Daughter

    The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel.**Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Venus Fixers

    The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

    In 1943, while the world was convulsed by war, a few visionaries -- in the private sector and in the military -- committed to protect Europe's cultural heritage from the indiscriminate ravages of World War II.In the midst of the conflict, the Allied Forces appointed the monuments officers—a motley group of art historians, curators, architects, and artists—to ensure that the great masterworks of ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD