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  • Emigrant Soldiers

    Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War

    by Selena Daly ...
    During the First World War, over 300,000 Italian emigrants returned to Italy from around the world to perform their conscripted military service, a mass mobilisation which was a uniquely Italian phenomenon. But what happened to these men following their arrival and once the war had ended? Selena Daly reconstructs the lives of these emigrant soldiers before, during and after the First World War, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Italian Futurism and the First World War

    by Selena Daly ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with the war effort, both on the battlefields and on the home front.Beginning with the outbreak of war in 1914, Italian Futurism and the First World War provides vivid accounts of Futurist experiences through ... Read more

    $56.19 USD

  • Landscapes of the First World War

    Edited by Selena Daly, Martina Salvante, Vanda Wilcox ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes: environment and climate, industrial and urban landscapes, cross-cultural encounters, and legacies of the war. The chapters cover ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Primo Levi's Resistance

    Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy

    by Sergio Luzzatto ...
    A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first ... Read more

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  • Blood and Power

    The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

    by John Foot ...
    'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary SupplementA major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war.In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians ... Read more

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  • Naples 1944

    The Devil's Paradise at War

    by Keith Lowe ...
    Award-winning author Keith Lowe's newest critical deep-dive into the history of Naples during WWII.Keith Lowe has chronicled the end of WWII in Europe in his award-winning book Savage Continent and the war’s aftermath in the sequel, The Fear and the Freedom. In Naples 1944, he brings readers another masterful chronicle of the terrible and often unexpected consequences of war. Even before the fall ... Read more

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  • Garibaldi

    by Lucy Riall ...
    Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Archipelago

    Italy Since 1945

    by John Foot ...
    'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday TimesItaly emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people claimed had ceased to exist. And yet, as rural society disappeared almost overnight, by the 1960s, it could boast the fastest-growing economy in ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Grandchildren

    Fascism in Contemporary Italy

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Garibaldi

    by Ron Field ...
    Series Book 14 - Command
    An examination of the life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Giuseppe Garibaldi.Born on 4 July 1807 in the city of Nice, the turning point in his life occurred in April 1833 when he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo, a member of the secret movement known as 'Young Italy'. Joining this society, Garibaldi took an oath dedicating his life to the struggle for the liberation of his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bold and Dangerous Family, A

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

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 3 - The Resistance Quartet
    The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars-a profile in courage that remains relevant today.Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy ... Read more

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