LEADER 03348nam 2200541 450 001 9910686481803321 005 20230731000155.0 010 $a3-031-28682-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-28682-7 035 $a(CKB)5590000001037793 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-28682-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7236686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7236686 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000001037793 100 $a20230731d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aItalian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World War $eworking with the enemy /$fNicola Cacciatore 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 248 p.) 225 1 $aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-294X 311 $a3-031-28681-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Where it all began -- Chapter 3: Fieldwork -- Chapter 4: Propaganda -- Chapter 5:The long liberation -- Chapter 6: Conclusion. 330 $aThis book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945. The core of the argument challenges many assumptions that are today still present both in Italian and in the Anglophone historiography on the subject. In current historiography, the debate is still ongoing as to whether the British were a hostile force to the Italian Resistance, trying to weaken it to better control it, or a genuine and committed ally. Instead of a clear-cut and artificial dichotomy between the 'Italians' and the 'British' this book posits the idea that lines were often blurred, and relations existed on a scale that included lots of grey and overlapping areas. Thanks to an original approach that examines the Italo-British interaction from a point of view as close as possible to the ?action?, it proposes a new interpretation based on the way the British image was cast in Italy. Politics is left in the background in favour of an analysis of the concrete problems and difficulties that Italians and the British had to face when working together and how these processes influenced the image of Great Britain in Italy in the following decades. This produces a final interpretation that enriches current historiography and pushes forward our understanding of the relationship between Italian partisans and British forces. 410 0$aItalian and Italian American Studies,$x2635-294X 606 $aMilitary campaigns 606 $aWar$xUnderground movements 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zItaly 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xUnderground movements$zItaly 615 0$aMilitary campaigns. 615 0$aWar$xUnderground movements. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xUnderground movements 676 $a940.5345 700 $aCacciatore$b Nicola$01354239 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910686481803321 996 $aItalian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World War$93313903 997 $aUNINA