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Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World Warworking with the enemy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World Warby Nicola Cacciatore.
Reminder of title:	working with the enemy /
Author:	Cacciatore, Nicola.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023.
Description:	ix, 248 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945Underground movementsItaly.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28682-7
ISBN:	9783031286827$q(electronic bk.)

Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World Warworking with the enemy /
Cacciatore, Nicola.

Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World Warworking with the enemy /[electronic resource] :by Nicola Cacciatore. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - ix, 248 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Italian and Italian American studies,2635-294X. - Italian and Italian American studies..

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Where it all began -- Chapter 3: Fieldwork -- Chapter 4: Propaganda -- Chapter 5:The long liberation -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

This book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945. The core of the argument challenges many assumptions that are today still present both in Italian and in the Anglophone historiography on the subject. In current historiography, the debate is still ongoing as to whether the British were a hostile force to the Italian Resistance, trying to weaken it to better control it, or a genuine and committed ally. Instead of a clear-cut and artificial dichotomy between the 'Italians' and the 'British' this book posits the idea that lines were often blurred, and relations existed on a scale that included lots of grey and overlapping areas. Thanks to an original approach that examines the Italo-British interaction from a point of view as close as possible to the 'action', it proposes a new interpretation based on the way the British image was cast in Italy. Politics is left in the background in favour of an analysis of the concrete problems and difficulties that Italians and the British had to face when working together and how these processes influenced the image of Great Britain in Italy in the following decades. This produces a final interpretation that enriches current historiography and pushes forward our understanding of the relationship between Italian partisans and British forces.

ISBN: 9783031286827$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-28682-7doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

442821
Great Britain.
Army--History--17th century.Subjects--Topical Terms:

908758
World War, 1939-1945
--Underground movements--Italy.

LC Class. No.: D802.I8 / C33 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 940.5345

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