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Cover -- Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword by Professor David W. Ellwood -- Introduction -- 0.1 Prologue -- 0.2 Researching 'ordinary occupation encounters' in Allied-occupied Italy -- 0.3 Scope, purpose, and historiography -- 0.4 Egodocuments for the analysis of ordinary occupation encounters -- 0.5 Book structure -- 0.6 Postscript -- Part I: Invasion -- 1: The Road to Invasion -- 1.1 The British monologue to Italy -- 1.2 'Only through leaflets shall we be able to get at the masses' -- 1.3 Wartime Sicily -- 1.4 The eve of invasion -- 2: Landing in Sicily -- 2.1 The 'Baedeker invasion' -- 2.2 The first encounter on the beachhead -- 2.3 Sicilians between invasion and liberation -- 2.4 'The English are coming!' -- 2.5 Armistice in Sicily -- Part II: Liberation -- 3: 'See Naples and Die' -- 3.1 The epic of wartime Naples -- 3.2 Neapolitans under the bombs -- 3.3 The Quattro giornate uprising -- 3.4 Encountering a dead city -- 4: Beyond the Rome Liberation Party -- 4.1 The different encounters with Naples and Rome -- 4.2 From the San Lorenzo bombing to the Ardeatine Caves massacre -- 4.3 'One of the most glorious days in my life' -- 4.4 The other face of the first encounter -- Part III: Occupation -- 5: From Liberation to Occupation -- 5.1 AMGOT -- 5.2 The end of the liberation dream -- 5.3 'We are friends now, aren't we? Will you give me a cigarette?' -- 5.4 Italian turncoats and miserable-looking British -- 6: The Impossible Cohabitation -- 6.1 The remaking of occupied Italy -- 6.2 The occupation of the Italians' space -- 6.3 'The only chance of survival was to work for the Allies' -- 6.4 Black market, 'demon vino', and illicit trade -- 6.5 Soldiers and civilians against each other. |
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7: Gendered Encounters -- 7.1 'I killed Captain Lush to avenge my honour' -- 7.2 Prostitution and segnorine -- 7.3 British soldiers' sexual encounters in Italy -- 7.4 Italian wives -- Epilogue -- Archives and collections -- Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Documents Archive -- Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Sound Archive -- Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Library -- Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Art Collection -- Imperial War Museum (IWM), London, UK- Film Archive -- The National Archives (TNA), Kew, UK -- Newspaper archive at the British Library, London, UK -- Archivio Centrale dello Stato (ACS), Rome, Italy -- Allied Control Commission at the ACS (ACS, ACC) Rome, Italy -- Archivio di Stato di Roma (ASR), Rome, Italy -- Archivio Sonoro 'Franco Coggiola' at the Circolo Gianni Bosio (CGB), Rome, Italy -- Archivio di Stato di Napoli (ASN), Naples, Italy -- Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza, dell'Antifascismo e dell'Età Contemporanea 'Vera Lombardi' (ICSR), Naples, Italy -- Laboratorio di Storia Orale del Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II' (LSO), Naples, Italy -- Archivio di Stato di Siracusa (ASSi), Syracuse, Italy -- Archivio Diaristico Nazionale (ADN), Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy -- Newspaper archive at the Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy -- Online archives -- Archivio degli Iblei (AdI): -- Memorie Orali degli Iblei (MOdI): -- Bibliography -- Published diaries, memoirs, post-war accounts, re-elaborations based on autobiographical experiences, and collections of autobiographical accounts -- Published works of fiction based on autobiographical experiences -- Secondary sources -- Films -- Index. |
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'Encounters in Wartime Italy' provides an in-depth study of ordinary encounters between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied occupation of Sicily, Naples and Rome (1943-1947). Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, interviews and official records, Fabio Simonetti analyses the perception of occupiers and occupied. |
