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Following the battle for Crete in May 1941, Hitler refused to undertake any further large-scale airborne operations due to the high casualty rate. The Fallschirmjäger subsequently took up a new role as elite 'line' infantry, and they served in the Mediterranean from 1942 to 1945, taking part in the...

In Beyond the Inquisition, originally published in an Italian edition in 2007, Giorgio Caravale offers a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century Italian religious history and the religious crisis that swept across Europe during that period. Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi...

Sicily is located in Italy and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is a popular tourist destination, has a rich history, a testimony so numerous preserved temples and the Acropolis of ancient Greek cities in cities today - Catania, Syracuse, Palermo and Taormina, famous Roman...

Venice is a city in northern Italy and the capital of the autonomous region of Veneto. The city covers an area of ​​412 sq.km the town itself includes with 118 small islands that make up Venice lagoon in the Adriatic Sea Saltwater lagoon stretches between the mouths of the rivers Po and Pave....

Torino Is a major cultural and commercial centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region Located on the left bank of the Po River surrounded by the mountain range haplites. The symbol of Turin is the Mole (Mole) - the name of the building comes from the architect who built it - Alessandro...

From 1135 to 1571. XII. According to legend, the Holy Roman Emperor kidnaps three hundred rich Italian merchants that after three years of imprisonment, despairing to return to freedom, formulate a vow of humility. Back home Humiliatet basis of many houses that spread in central and northern Italy...

By Enrico Lamet an 81-year-old retiree living in Florida. How he got there is an amazing tale. Born in Vienna as Erich Lifshütz, an upper middle class Jew with Polish roots, he left Austria with his parents in 1938, at the age of 8. As Jews, they were not permitted to take much money out of the country...

Sir Galgano Chuidotti The legend of King Arthur centers on the future King in the mythical kingdom of Camelot located in southern England, a knight and a sword in a stone. However, in the beautiful Tuscan countryside of Italy is the small village of Montesiepi where a mystery exists,...

This book provides a significant history of Italy's brutal occupation of Libya. Using the lens of the life of the iconic resistance fighter Mohamed Fekini, it tells the story of Libya under Ottoman and Italian rule from the point of view of the colonized.

A riveting and comprehensive account of the Battle of Anzio and the Alamo-like stand of American and British troops that turned certain defeat into victory The four-month-long 1944 battle on Italy's coast, south of Rome, was one of World War II's longest and bloodiest battles. Surrounded by...

The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post-war the army, focusing on the Alpine...

The Italian army, unlike those of the British and French, did not use tanks in combat during World War I and, by November 1918, only one training unit equipped with French Schneider and Renault tanks had been formed. Consequently, during the 1920s the Italian army had just one single tank type in...

An epic endeavor by a man genuinely enamored of his native Rome, Livy's "The History of Rome" was originally written in 142 books spanning the entire history of the Roman people up to Livy's day in the time of Augustus in the first century BC. While this Roman historian's monumental undertaking...

In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' – not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it was a nation united under a single king and...