During my many years of going to Italy as an art tourist, I was only peripherally aware of that nation’s complicated recent political history. Sometimes, indeed, I was comically naive. Once, long ago, ...
5 7/8 x 9 in. (14.9 x 22.7 cm) sheet 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.4 cm) ...
In this trenchant study, historian Lowe (Savage Continent) investigates Naples’s descent into chaos following its liberation by Allied troops in September 1943. Withdrawing Germans—who had perpetrated ...