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Encounters in wartime Italy : a social history of invasion, liberation, and occupation /

'Encounters in Wartime Italy' provides an in-depth study of ordinary encounters between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied occupation of Sicily, Naples and Rome (1943-1947). Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews and official records, Fabio Simonetti analyse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simonetti, Fabio, 1984- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Italy.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Italie.
World War II.
Military.
HISTORY.
Social History.
Italy
European history.
Warfare and Defence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Foreword by Professor David W. Ellwood
  • Introduction
  • 0.1 Prologue
  • 0.2 Researching 'ordinary occupation encounters' in Allied-occupied Italy
  • 0.3 Scope, purpose, and historiography
  • 0.4 Egodocuments for the analysis of ordinary occupation encounters
  • 0.5 Book structure
  • 0.6 Postscript
  • Part I: Invasion
  • 1: The Road to Invasion
  • 1.1 The British monologue to Italy
  • 1.2 'Only through leaflets shall we be able to get at the masses'
  • 1.3 Wartime Sicily
  • 1.4 The eve of invasion
  • 2: Landing in Sicily
  • 2.1 The 'Baedeker invasion'
  • 2.2 The first encounter on the beachhead
  • 2.3 Sicilians between invasion and liberation
  • 2.4 'The English are coming!'
  • 2.5 Armistice in Sicily
  • Part II: Liberation
  • 3: 'See Naples and Die'
  • 3.1 The epic of wartime Naples
  • 3.2 Neapolitans under the bombs
  • 3.3 The Quattro giornate uprising
  • 3.4 Encountering a dead city
  • 4: Beyond the Rome Liberation Party
  • 4.1 The different encounters with Naples and Rome
  • 4.2 From the San Lorenzo bombing to the Ardeatine Caves massacre
  • 4.3 'One of the most glorious days in my life'
  • 4.4 The other face of the first encounter
  • Part III: Occupation
  • 5: From Liberation to Occupation
  • 5.1 AMGOT
  • 5.2 The end of the liberation dream
  • 5.3 'We are friends now, aren't we? Will you give me a cigarette?'
  • 5.4 Italian turncoats and miserable-looking British
  • 6: The Impossible Cohabitation
  • 6.1 The remaking of occupied Italy
  • 6.2 The occupation of the Italians' space
  • 6.3 'The only chance of survival was to work for the Allies'
  • 6.4 Black market, 'demon vino', and illicit trade
  • 6.5 Soldiers and civilians against each other.
  • 7: Gendered Encounters
  • 7.1 'I killed Captain Lush to avenge my honour'
  • 7.2 Prostitution and segnorine
  • 7.3 British soldiers' sexual encounters in Italy
  • 7.4 Italian wives
  • Epilogue
  • Archives and collections
  • Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Documents Archive
  • Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Sound Archive
  • Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Library
  • Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Art Collection
  • Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Film Archive
  • The National Archives (TNA), Kew, UK
  • Newspaper archive at the British Library, London, UK
  • Archivio Centrale dello Stato (ACS), Rome, Italy
  • Allied Control Commission at the ACS (ACS, ACC) Rome, Italy
  • Archivio di Stato di Roma (ASR), Rome, Italy
  • Archivio Sonoro 'Franco Coggiola' at the Circolo Gianni Bosio (CGB), Rome, Italy
  • Archivio di Stato di Napoli (ASN), Naples, Italy
  • Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza, dell'Antifascismo e dell'Età Contemporanea 'Vera Lombardi' (ICSR), Naples, Italy
  • Laboratorio di Storia Orale del Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II' (LSO), Naples, Italy
  • Archivio di Stato di Siracusa (ASSi), Syracuse, Italy
  • Archivio Diaristico Nazionale (ADN), Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy
  • Newspaper archive at the Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  • Online archives
  • Archivio degli Iblei (AdI):
  • Memorie Orali degli Iblei (MOdI):
  • Bibliography
  • Published diaries, memoirs, post-war accounts, re-elaborations based on autobiographical experiences, and collections of autobiographical accounts
  • Published works of fiction based on autobiographical experiences
  • Secondary sources
  • Films
  • Index.