Partisan Diary

Author : Ada Gobetti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199380558

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Partisan Diary by Ada Gobetti Pdf

Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the city on 28 April 1945, Gobetti recorded an almost daily account of events, sentiments, and personalities, in a cryptic English only she could understand. Italian senator and philosopher Benedetto Croce encouraged Ada to convert her notes into a book. Published by the Italian publisher Giulio Einaudi in 1956, it won the Premio Prato, an annual prize for a work inspired by the Italian Resistance (Resistenza). From a political and military point of view, the Partisan Diary provides firsthand knowledge of how the partisans in Piedmont fought, what obstacles they encountered, and who joined the struggle against the Nazis and the Fascists. The mountainous terrain and long winters of the Alpine regions (the site of many of their battles) and the ever-present threat of reprisals by German occupiers and their fascist partners exacerbated problems of organization among the various partisan groups. So arduous was their fight, that key military events--Italy's declaration of war on Germany, the fall of Rome, and the Allied landings on D-Day --appear in the diary as remote and almost unrelated incidents. Ada Gobetti writes of the heartbreak of mothers who lost their sons or watched them leave on dangerous missions of sabotage, relating it to worries about her own son Paolo. She reflects on the relationship between anti-fascist thought of the 1920s, in particular the ideas of her husband, Piero Gobetti, and the Italian resistance movement (Resistenza) in which she and her son were participating. While the Resistenza represented a culmination of more than twenty years of anti-fascist activity for Ada, it also helped illuminate the exceptional talents, needs, and rights of Italian women, more than one hundred thousand of whom participated.

Author : Ada Gobetti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199380541

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Partisan Diary by Ada Gobetti Pdf

Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the city on 28 April 1945, Gobetti recorded an almost daily account of events, sentiments, and personalities, in a cryptic English only she could understand. Italian senator and philosopher Benedetto Croce encouraged Ada to convert her notes into a book. Published by the Italian publisher Giulio Einaudi in 1956, it won the Premio Prato, an annual prize for a work inspired by the Italian Resistance (Resistenza). From a political and military point of view, the Partisan Diary provides firsthand knowledge of how the partisans in Piedmont fought, what obstacles they encountered, and who joined the struggle against the Nazis and the Fascists. The mountainous terrain and long winters of the Alpine regions (the site of many of their battles) and the ever-present threat of reprisals by German occupiers and their fascist partners exacerbated problems of organization among the various partisan groups. So arduous was their fight, that key military events--Italy's declaration of war on Germany, the fall of Rome, and the Allied landings on D-Day --appear in the diary as remote and almost unrelated incidents. Ada Gobetti writes of the heartbreak of mothers who lost their sons or watched them leave on dangerous missions of sabotage, relating it to worries about her own son Paolo. She reflects on the relationship between anti-fascist thought of the 1920s, in particular the ideas of her husband, Piero Gobetti, and the Italian resistance movement (Resistenza) in which she and her son were participating. While the Resistenza represented a culmination of more than twenty years of anti-fascist activity for Ada, it also helped illuminate the exceptional talents, needs, and rights of Italian women, more than one hundred thousand of whom participated.

Author : Rosetta Solari Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438902891

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Diary of a Partisan by Rosetta Solari Knox Pdf

Author : Vladimir Dedijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : UCSD:31822026269779

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With Tito Through the War; Partisan Diary, 1941-1944 by Vladimir Dedijer Pdf

Author : David Hutchison,David Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527557468

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Stuart Hood, Twentieth-Century Partisan by David Hutchison,David Johnson Pdf

This collection introduces the reader to the life and times of Stuart Hood (1915-2011). Highlighting Hood’s year spent fighting with the Italian Resistance during the Second World War, the essays consider how his experiences as a partisan influenced his peacetime trajectory. Written by distinguished scholars from several disciplines, each chapter examines different aspects of Hood’s life and work, including his Scottish boyhood and university education in Edinburgh; his distinguished career as a broadcaster presiding over an era of unprecedented creativity at BBC television; his role in the establishment of the discipline of media studies; and his contribution to radical European culture as the translator of 40 literary works from Italian, German, French and Russian, and as the author of eight acclaimed novels. Stuart Hood’s reticence made him an enigma to many who knew him. This collection assesses his many-faceted achievements, demonstrating how his life provides fresh insights into twentieth-century European history. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of British and European socialism, media studies and literature.

Author : Emanuele Artom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 9653086693

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These Thoughts of Mine by Emanuele Artom Pdf

Author : Heather Williams
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0299194949

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Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans by Heather Williams Pdf

Based on impressive research and new evidence, this history of the secret British wartime agency, the Special Operations Executive, in wartime Yugoslavia argues that SOE actions achieved little military advantage for the Allies and exacerbated the developing civil war among the forces of monarchist Drazha Mihailovic, Tito s partisans, and other guerilla groups. Heather Williams tracks SOE relations with the British Foreign office, policy-makers, and military high command; the Yugoslav guerrilla movements and exiled Yugoslav government; other secret organizations, and the American Office of Strategic Services, examining how rivalries among these players influenced the future of Yugoslavia. Copublished with C. Hurst & Co, Publishers Ltd., London The Wisconsin edition is for saleonly in North and South American, U.S. dependencies, and the Philippines. "

Author : Vladimir Dedijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018506298

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The War Diaries of Vladimir Dedijer by Vladimir Dedijer Pdf

A three-volume edition of the wartime diary of a Yugoslav partisan who fought with Tito

Author : Richard Aldrich
Publisher : Random House
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448168149

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Witness To War by Richard Aldrich Pdf

WITNESS TO WAR is an eye-opening retelling of the war experience through the private diaries kept by people from all walks of life and from many countries. The twentieth century's Second World War announced its arrival from a distance, and as early as spring 1938 city-dwellers across Europe expected destruction on an epic scale. Men, women and children, most of whom had never kept a diary before, began to chronicle their own responses to what they knew would be a unique moment in world history. The cast of characters represented in these diaries - more than three hundred in number - ranges from politicians, soldiers and spies to ordinary citizens and housewives, from a London schoolboy watching V-1 doodlebugs from his bedroom window to an interned German refugee robbed and beaten by British troops. Many others are famous, and this collection includes rare material from figures such as Joseph Goebbels, Joyce Grenfell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Evelyn Waugh and Noël Coward. It also contains the insights of many who were close to Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Most of these diaries involved a degree of danger and secrecy. In occupied Europe a captured diary could betray friends and relatives to the enemy. Some were downright illegal, such as those kept by soldiers on the front line. More than half a century after the end of the war, these hidden treasures - the voices of the past - are still being unearthed. Many of these accounts languished unread, unpublished and gathering dust in scholarly archives around the world. Richard Aldrich has devoted two decades to sustained research in more than a dozen countries. This is war at first hand described in the most immediate terms, not mediated through the voice of peripheral observers or shaded by fading memory or political allegiances.

Author : Vladimir Dedijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : 0472100912

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From April 6, 1941, to November 27, 1942 by Vladimir Dedijer Pdf

A three-volume edition of the wartime diary of a Yugoslav partisan who fought with Tito

Author : Hedge Fund Manager,n+1,Keith Gessen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780061992407

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Diary of a Very Bad Year by Hedge Fund Manager,n+1,Keith Gessen Pdf

“Diary of a Very Bad Year is a rarity: a book on modern finance that’s both extraordinarily thoughtful and enormously entertaining.” — James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds “A great read. . . . HFM offers a brilliant financial professional’s view of the economic situation in real time, from September 2007, when problems in financial markets began to surface, until late summer 2009.” — Booklist “n+1 is the rightful heir to Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. It is rigorous, curious and provocative.” — Malcolm Gladwell A profoundly candid and captivating account of the economic crisis and subprime mortgage collapse, from an anonymous hedge fund manager, as told to the editors of New York literary magazine n+1.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198863502

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Killing Strangers by Anonim Pdf

A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality, with every city centre a potential shooting gallery; every metro system a potential bomb alley. Killing Strangers explores how acts of political violence have changed over time, becoming 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships.

Author : Stanislao G. Pugliese
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0742531236

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Fascism, Anti-fascism, and the Resistance in Italy by Stanislao G. Pugliese Pdf

While the historical significance of fascism and anti-fascism is still being hotly debated in Italy and across Europe, this anthology brings to light a wide range of voices--political, literary, and popular--that illuminate more than eighty years of fascism and anti-fascism in Italy. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Lionginas Baliukevičius,Irena Blekys,Lijana Holmes,Joseph Everatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : 9955463201

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The Diary of a Partisan by Lionginas Baliukevičius,Irena Blekys,Lijana Holmes,Joseph Everatt Pdf

Author : Ben H. Shepherd
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300179033

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Hitler's Soldiers by Ben H. Shepherd Pdf

A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent scholarship to convey a much darker, more complex picture. For the first time, the German army is examined throughout the Second World War, across all combat theaters and occupied regions, and from multiple perspectives: its battle performance, social composition, relationship with the Nazi state, and involvement in war crimes and military occupation. This was a true people's army, drawn from across German society and reflecting that society as it existed under the Nazis. Without the army and its conquests abroad, Shepherd explains, the Nazi regime could not have perpetrated its crimes against Jews, prisoners of war, and civilians in occupied countries. The author examines how the army was complicit in these crimes and why some soldiers, units, and higher commands were more complicit than others. Shepherd also reveals the reasons for the army's early battlefield successes and its mounting defeats up to 1945, the latter due not only to Allied superiority and Hitler's mismanagement as commander-in-chief, but also to the failings--moral, political, economic, strategic, and operational--of the army's own leadership.