5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters at Salerno Michael Somerville* Within the historiography of the Avalanche landings much more attention is normally given to the operations in the south on the Sele plain. This is partly down to the political significance of the American contribution – the first time their troops had fought on mainland Europe for… Continue reading Avalanche: The Forgotten Front
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A collaborative work model: The Practise Community
Carlo Bruno* “The research and innovation community platform”, a meeting space between experts inspired, as stated in its presentation, to the principles of the Community of Practice “Europe’s research and innovation community platform is a unique space bringing together researchers from the EU and beyond”. The event aimed to “kick off the formation of a… Continue reading A collaborative work model: The Practise Community
A virtual space to link widespread memory
Francesco Cacciatore* This special issue of Occupied Italy is detached from the work done so far by the magazine, who presented innovative research by Italian and international academics on the theme of World War II in Italy and its consequences for the country in the early years of the Cold War. The Occupied Italy project… Continue reading A virtual space to link widespread memory
Issue n.3 call for proposals
For the publication of the third issue of the journal (September 2023), Occupied Italy invites all interested to participate in the Call for Abstract on the theme “From the American enemy to the American myth: the USA in the eyes of Italy between the Second World War and the Cold War”. The Call intends to… Continue reading Issue n.3 call for proposals
The US in Italy, Paisan in America: Cinema in the Occupation of Italy.
Anthony B. Smith
Paisan, Roberto Rossellini’s film about the battle for and occupation of Italy by Allied forces during World War II, played for sixteen weeks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1949.
Italia, Seconda guerra mondiale: la costituzione del piano per la protezione del patrimonio librario.
Donatella Matè, Flavia Bruni, Alessia Strozzi
Obiettivo del contributo è delineare la prima fase del piano di protezione per le biblioteche, oggi comunemente indicato come piano di emergenza, predisposto prima del secondo conflitto mondiale.
The Matter of Being a «Foreign Agent»: the Political Complexity Behind the Cooperation between Italian antifascist Leaders and Anglo-American Strategic Services during World War II
Giulia Clarizia
The history of the relations between the Anglo-Americans and the Italian antifascist Resistance has one of its main chapters in the cooperation between the antifascists and the Anglo-American wartime strategic services.
Storia contro Narrazione, progetti e futuri digitali per la storiografia della seconda guerra mondiale.
Giovanni Pietro Vitali
Ogni nuova pubblicazione, che si concentri sulle problematiche storiche della Seconda guerra mondiale, deve essere sempre essere salutata dalla comunità scientifica e dall’opinione pubblica come un contributo necessario al dibattito democratico del nostro paese.
Le intercettazioni telefoniche della Legione “Muti”, tra quotidianità della guerra civile e alleanze di alto livello.
Jacopo Calussi
In questo contributo verrà analizzato un elenco di intercettazioni telefoniche, operate dai membri del Servizio Informazioni del CVL e conservate presso i National Archives di Washington.
Issue n.2 Call for proposals
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Occupied Italy, 1943-1947 – N. 2 (September 2022) The journal Occupied Italy 1943-1947, dedicated to the study of the history of the Second World War in Italy and its immediate consequences, is issuing a call for abstracts to select the articles that will be published in the next issue (September 2022), dedicated… Continue reading Issue n.2 Call for proposals