Naples 1944
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The Second World War destroyed countless cities in Europe and Asia.
Naples 1944 is the story of the first major European city to be
liberated by the Allies. The book describes not only what happened
to Naples when the scourge of war lashed down upon it, but also,
crucially, what happened next.This is the first major history of
wartime Naples to appear in the English language.It fills a glaring
gap in the British and American historiography of the war and
shares a hoard of new stories - some of them truly shocking - that
have never yet been published in any language.When the Allies
arrived in late 1943, Naples had already suffered a brutal German
occupation and suffered reprisals from the city's heroic resistance
and uprisings. This did not save it from the merciless Allied
bombing. The city was on its knees with widespread suffering and
squalor.Criminal gangs prospered, as did typhus, starvation and
soaring prices on the black market. Much of the female population
was forced into part-time prostitution simply to obtain food. Then
Vesuvius erupted.Lowe's gripping and powerful book places Naples
right at the heart of Italian history.What happened in this city
was not a mere sideshow to bigger events taking place further
north, it was central to the story of the country as a whole.
Neapolitans resisted Fascism just as the Florentines, the
Bolognese, and the Milanese did. They suffered just as northerners
did, and they longed as much for constitutional rebirth.The heroism
and sacrifice that took place in Naples were harbingers of what
would later happen throughout Italy - as were the compromise and
corruption of ideals that came after the Allies took control.Naples
1944 is original and humane history at its very best, and a book
which shows that Neapolitan story is the Italian story.
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Keith Lowe ,
HarperCollins Publishers
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Keith Lowe,
HarperCollins Publishers
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Slovart
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