Overview
- Proposes a new perspective of Italian partisans & British forces relations during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945
- Challenges many assumptions that are still present in Italian and Anglophone historiography on the subject
- Creates a final interpretation that enriches current historiography
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nicola Cacciatore holds a PhD in History from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He worked as a researcher at the University of Florence and is currently a researcher with the Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri. He also serves as Communication Officer for the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) in the United Kingdom.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World War
Book Subtitle: Working with the Enemy
Authors: Nicola Cacciatore
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28682-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28681-0Published: 12 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28684-1Published: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28682-7Published: 11 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 248
Topics: History of Italy, History of World War II and the Holocaust, European Politics