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Book Synopsis The Mussolini Canal by : Antonio Pennacchi
Download or read book The Mussolini Canal written by Antonio Pennacchi and published by Dedalus Europe 2013. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mussolini Canal is one of the great achievements of contemporary Italian fiction. It spans 100 years of Italian history as seen through the lives of the Peruzzi family, who are among the 30,000 peasants from Northern Italy sent down to farm the newly-drained Pontine Marshes outside Rome in the 1930s. Mussolini is revered by the Peruzzi family, who must reconcile their admiration for Il Duce with the failings of Fascism which slowly envelop them. Contemporary events permeate the book and the hardship and misery of earlier periods are seen against the background of modern prosperity. It won the Strega prize in 2010 in Italy and has sold over 400,000 copies in Italy
Book Synopsis Canale Mussolini by : Antonio Pennacchi
Download or read book Canale Mussolini written by Antonio Pennacchi and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canale Mussolini è l'asse portante su cui si regge la bonifica delle Paludi Pontine. I suoi argini sono scanditi da eucalypti immensi che assorbono l'acqua e prosciugano i campi, alle sue cascatelle i ragazzini fanno il bagno e aironi bianchissimi trovano rifugio.
Book Synopsis Canal Mussolini by : Antonio PENNACCHI
Download or read book Canal Mussolini written by Antonio PENNACCHI and published by Liana Levi. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Peruzzi: dix-sept frères et soeurs, une tribu. Des paysans sans terre, tendance marxiste, à la tête dure et au sang chaud. Parce qu’un certain Benito Mussolini est un ami de la famille, ils abandonnent le rouge pour le noir. En 1932, avec trente mille autres affamés, ils émigrent dans les marais Pontins, au sud de Rome, où démarre le chantier le plus spectaculaire de la dictature. Huit ans sont nécessaires pour creuser un gigantesque canal, assécher sept cents kilomètres carrés de bourbiers infestés de moustiques et bâtir des villes nouvelles. Enfin, les Peruzzi deviennent propriétaires de leurs domaines. Mais tandis que l’histoire emporte les aînés dans le tourbillon des conquêtes coloniales et de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, au Canal, les abeilles d’Armida, l’ensorcelante femme de Pericle, prédisent un sombre avenir. Entre chronique et farce, Pennacchi signe un roman époustouflant où la saga d’une famille sur trois générations croise un demi-siècle de l’histoire italienne.
Book Synopsis Canale Mussolini by : Antonio Pennacchi
Download or read book Canale Mussolini written by Antonio Pennacchi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935 by : Robert Mallett
Download or read book Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935 written by Robert Mallett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935 looks in detail at the evolution of the Italian Fascist regime's colonial policy within the context of European politics and the rise to power of German National Socialism. It delves into the tortuous nature of relations between the National Fascist Party and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), while demonstrating how, ultimately, a Hitler-led Germany proved the best mechanism for overseas Italian expansion in East Africa. The book assesses the emergence of an ideologically driven Fascist colonial policy from 1931 onwards and how this eventually culminated in a serious clash of interests with the British Empire. Benito Mussolini's successful flouting of the League of Nations' authority heralded a new dark era in world politics and continues to have its resonance in today's world.
Book Synopsis Mussolini's Nation-Empire by : Roberta Pergher
Download or read book Mussolini's Nation-Empire written by Roberta Pergher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first exploration of how Mussolini employed population settlement inside the nation and across the empire to strengthen Italian sovereignty.
Book Synopsis Canale Mussolini. Parte prima by : Antonio Pennacchi
Download or read book Canale Mussolini. Parte prima written by Antonio Pennacchi and published by Oscar 451. This book was released on 2019 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War by : Barbara Curli
Download or read book Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War written by Barbara Curli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived in the 1850s and opened to navigation in 1869, the Suez Canal’s construction coincided with Italy’s path to unification and its first foray into nineteenth-century globalization. Since then, the history of Italy and the Canal have intertwined in many ways, throughout in peace and war. This edited collection explores the fundamental technical, diplomatic and financial contributions that Italy made to the production of the Canal and to its subsequent development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the Cold War. Drawing from unpublished public and private archival sources, this book is the first comprehensive account of this long and multifaceted relationship, providing innovative perspectives on Italy’s diplomatic, economic, social, colonial and cultural history. An insightful read for those studying maritime, diplomatic or Italian history, this book contributes to a growing body of research on the Canal, which has largely emerged from international business, labour and social history, and offers new insights into the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Book Synopsis Mussolini's Rome by : Borden Painter
Download or read book Mussolini's Rome written by Borden Painter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome was Mussolini's obsession. After coming to power as a result of his famed march on the city in 1922, he promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and make Italy a major power on the world stage. In the next two decades, he set about rebuilding Rome as the foremost site and symbol of the new fascist order. Through an ambitious program of demolition and construction, he sought to make Rome a capital that both embraced modernity while preserving and glorifing the city's ancient past. Building the new Rome put people to work, "liberated" ancient monuments from cluttered surroundings, cleared slums; produced giant complexes for education, sports, and cinema; produced wide new boulevards and piazzas; and provided the regime with a showcase for the supposed grandeur, dynamism, and power of fascism. This intriguing book reveals Mussolini's tremendous and lasting impact on the city to which millions flock each year.
Book Synopsis All American, All the Way by : Phil Nordyke
Download or read book All American, All the Way written by Phil Nordyke and published by Zenith Imprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 82nd Airborne Division - known as the "All-Americas" - parachuted into history as America's first airborne division to see combat. Always at the forefr
Book Synopsis The Day of Battle by : Rick Atkinson
Download or read book The Day of Battle written by Rick Atkinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
Book Synopsis Spearhead of the Fifth Army by : Frank van Lunteren
Download or read book Spearhead of the Fifth Army written by Frank van Lunteren and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An excellent read for anyone interested in men at war, as well as for students of the airborne operations, the Italian Campaign, and the war in Europe” (The NYMAS Review). Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Col. Reuben Tucker’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples—a ghost town at first sight. The residents soon expressed their joy at being liberated. Four weeks later, the 504th—upon the special request of Gen. Mark Clark—spearheaded Fifth Army’s drive through the notorious Volturno Valley—the Germans’ next stand. January 1944 seemed to promise a period of rest, but the landing at Anzio meant deployment for the paratroopers again, this time by ship. A bombing raid during their beach landing was a forecast of eight weeks of bitter fighting. Holding the right flank of the beachhead along the Mussolini Canal, the paratroopers earned their nickname “Devils in Baggy Pants” for their frontline incursions into enemy lines, as well as their stubborn defense of the Allied salient. In this work, H Company’s attachment to the British 5th Grenadier Guards—and the Victoria Cross action of Maj. William Sidney—are painted in comprehensive light for the first time. The story of honorary member of the 504th PIR, Italian veteran Antonio Taurelli, is also included. Using war diaries, personal journals, letters, and interviews with nearly eighty veterans, an up-close view of the 504th PIR in the Fifth Army’s Italy Campaign is here in unsurpassed detail. From the author of two previous works on the 504th PIR, The Battle of the Bridges and Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper, this book shows that the Italian theater was second to none in terms of grueling combat, courage against formidable odds, and an extremely expert enemy.
Book Synopsis Jack Toffey's War by : John J. Toffey
Download or read book Jack Toffey's War written by John J. Toffey and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I see this book as the story my father never got to tell," John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell. In this moving account of a young man's journey to know a father who went to war in 1942 and never came back, John Toffey weaves memory, history, and his father's vivid letters home into a fascinating tale of a family, a war, and the threads that connect them. John Toffey was nine when his father's National Guard outfit was mobilized. For two years Toffey, his mother, and his sister moved from post to post before his dad shipped out--to North Africa, fighting the Vichy French in Morocco, then the Germans in Tunisia, where he was wounded. In July 1943 he went back to war, leading an infantry battalion in the invasions of Sicily and southern Italy. In January 1944 he landed his battalion at Anzio and was wounded again. After a long, bitter stalemate, Toffey's regiment led Mark Clark's push on Rome. On June 3, 1944, Jack Toffey was killed in the hill town of Palestrina, one day before the Allies marched into Rome. In a brutal campaign, Jack Toffey had commanded a combat battalion longer than any other officer in the Mediterranean theater. Only in 1996, when his father's letters were discovered, did John Toffey begin to piece together what happened to his father. And he tells this contested story of Allied success and failure with drama, steely reserve, and balance, adding an invaluable perspective to the portrait of Jack Toffey created by Rick Atkinson in his bestselling Day of Battle. This book is also a lovingly crafted portrait of home front Ohio, and how a young boy, his sister, and his mother waited out their war, scanning newspapers and magazines for news of Dad and devouring letters full of easy humor and expressions of love for and pride in his family and dreams of a good life after the war.
Book Synopsis Germanic Waffen SS on the Italian front. The "Reichsführer" and "Karstjäger" divisions” by : Alberto Peruffo
Download or read book Germanic Waffen SS on the Italian front. The "Reichsführer" and "Karstjäger" divisions” written by Alberto Peruffo and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The campaign of Italy, during the Second World War, saw several combat formations of the German army, from the Wehrmacht to the Luftwaffe, among these there were also departments of the Waffen SS or SS fighters who flanked departments of the SS of the Waffen SS or SS fighters who flanked departments of the SS Polizei and intelligence services Germanic. In the summer of 1943 the Waffen SS in Italy were present only with the Sturmbrigade “Reichsführer”, located in the garrison of Corsica. The “Reichsführer” will be the only unit of the Waffen SS to fight in Italy until, at the beginning of 1944, it will be joined by the 29th SS division “Italien”, made up of Italian soldiers assisted by German SS officers, to whom added the 24th division SS “Karstjäger”, a mountain unit that will find itself involved in the mountains of Yugoslavia and eastern Italy in the guerrilla war against the partisans.
Book Synopsis Dogface Soldier by : Wilson A. Heefner
Download or read book Dogface Soldier written by Wilson A. Heefner and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart. Truscott was one of the most significant of all U.S. Army generals in World War II, pioneering new combat training methods—including the famous “Truscott Trot”— and excelling as a combat commander, turning the Third Infantry Division into one of the finest divisions in the U.S. Army. He was instrumental in winning many of the most important battles of the war, participating in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Anzio, and southern France. Truscott was not only respected by his peers and “dogfaces”—common soldiers—alike but also ranked by President Eisenhower as second only to Patton, whose command he took over on October 8, 1945, and led until April 1946. Yet no definitive history of his life has been compiled. Wilson Heefner corrects that with the first authoritative biography of this distinguished American military leader. Heefner has undertaken impressive research in primary sources—as well as interviews with family members and former associates—to shed new light on this overlooked hero. He presents Truscott as a soldier who was shaped by his upbringing, civilian and military education, family life, friendships, and evolving experiences as a commander both in and out of combat. Heefner’s brisk narrative explores Truscott’s career through his three decades in the Army and defines his roles in key operations. It also examines Truscott’s postwar role as military governor of Bavaria, particularly in improving living conditions for Jewish displaced persons, removing Nazis from civil government, and assisting in the trials of German war criminals. And it offers the first comprehensive examination of his subsequent career in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as senior CIA representative in West Germany during the early days of the Cold War, and later as CIA Director Allen Dulles’s deputy director for coordination in Washington. Dogface Soldier is a portrait of a man who earned a reputation for being honest, forthright, fearless, and aggressive, both as a military officer and in his personal life—a man who, at the dedication ceremony for the Anzio-Nettuno American cemetery in 1945, turned away from the crowd and to the thousands of crosses stretching before him to address those buried there. Heefner has written a definitive biography of a great soldier and patriot.
Download or read book A Perfect Hell written by John Nadler and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nadler offers this account of America's first Special Forces unit--a team of commandoes considered the forefathers of the Green Berets and credited with turning the tide of the Italian campaign in the Second World War. Includes an 8-page photo insert and maps.
Book Synopsis The Axis Forces 21 by : Massimiliano Afiero
Download or read book The Axis Forces 21 written by Massimiliano Afiero and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue: we begin with the deployment of the Wiking Division in the Caucasus regions in the summer of 1942. Following is the biography of Bruno Hinz, an SS officer, who served first in the Wiking Division and then in the Götz von Berlichingen. We continue with the employment of the Italian volunteers who served in the Waffen SS on the Nettuno front in the spring of 1944. We then return to talk about the Polizei Division, dealing with its operational employment on the Leningrad front between the summer of 1942 and January 1943. We conclude with an article dedicated to the Legionary War Cross, intended for French volunteers who fought on the Eastern Front alongside the German armed forces.
