416 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - 4th ed. 2011
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ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)

ITALIAN MILITARY POST 1939-1945
World War II
POSTMARKS

With the cooperation of Piero Macrelli (for Italian East Africa) and Renato Ghiotto (for North Africa and Sicily)

Catalogue of postmarks in the Italian Military Post offices from 1939 to 1945, which includes the mobilization phase, campaign in Albania, Second world war up to 8 September 1943 and the cobelligerency with the Allies period, until the office closure.

New in the present edition, also thanks to the indications by many members of the Italian association for collectors of Military: text revision; better layout; new reproductions for some postmarks; many new kinds of marks and new dates; several updates and additions in the pages relevant to Italian East Africa; point valuation updated.

192 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - 1st ed. 2011
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Foreword by David Beech, Head of The Philatelic Collections, The British Library.

An extraordinary collection of full colour postcards and letters tells the story of the many thousands of Jews who fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge around the world.
The only lifeline these refugees had was short postcards and letters to let each other know they were still alive. Many of these were sent from internment camps which were established worldwide to deal with the overwhelming number of asylum seekers.

A unique collection of correspondence that shows the incredible nature of this worldwide emigration and the indomitable spirit of these Jewish refugees, a rare insight into how refugees from the Nazis kept their culture and communities alive throughout the world, written by a Jewish refugee, who went to Britain with his parents just before the war.

608 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
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BEHIND BARBED WIRE
documents and stories of Italian soldiers
prisoners of the Allies and of the Germans
1940-1945

Mail and documents of Italian soldiers prisoners during the Second World War, divided into different chapters: historical and postal introductions; notes on several prisoners, most of them from the province of Bari; postal documents sent by them (reproduced in colours) and the transcription of the texts. Work interesting both from a postal and historical point of view.

278 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2013
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THE POST OF ITALIAN MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD FROM 1950 TO 2010
Annotated catalogue with classification and evaluation

Published by CIFO - Association of Italian collectors of ordinary postage stamps

All the Italian military missions from 1950 to 2010, for a total number of 71 missions, with tables, mail, postcards, newspapers, leaflets, the most important postal and administrative postmarks (in CD - code 2459E - besides the pdf file of the catalogue, 249 additional pages with all the postmarks).
The catalogue is the result of a group work: Ruben Berta, Nadir Castagneri, Roberto Cruciani, Francesco Gagliardi, Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Domenico Matera, Luciano Nicola Cipriani, Piergiorgio Romerio.

278+249 pp. with colour and b/w ill. in CD-rom - ed. 2013 - pdf file
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THE POST OF ITALIAN MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD FROM 1950 TO 2010
Annotated catalogue with classification and evaluation

By Associazione dei collezionisti italiani di francobolli ordinari

CD with the pdf file of the catalogue (code 2461E) with all the Italian military missions from 1950 to 2010, for a total number of 71 missions, with tables, mail, postcards, newspapers, leaflets, the most important postal and administrative postmarks (in CD, 249 additional pages with all the postmarks).
The catalogue is the result of a group work: Ruben Berta, Nadir Castagneri, Roberto Cruciani, Francesco Gagliardi, Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Domenico Matera, Luciano Nicola Cipriani, Piergiorgio Romerio.

462 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2013
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THE MASSACRE OF THE "ACQUI DIVISION"
1939-1943
Evidences by survivors

The book, illustrated with period postcards, envelopes, letters, documents and photos, is published exactly 70 years after the massacre of the "Acqui Division", executed by the German soldiers in September 1943.

The author publishes for the first time the list of dead and missing people of Apulia and Balicata, of more than 70 correspondences and manuscripts of young soldiers of the "Acqui Division": unissued evidences of historic importance of living and dead survivors. Moreover he describes the welcome, by the town of Bari, of the corpses of the people slaughtered in Cephalonia and Corfu, happened in 1953 as reported in the newspaper "La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno" of that time.

This book, besides being a homage to the memories of those dead, represents a warning for the future Italian generations.

304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
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1866. THE THIRD WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
ITALIAN MILITARY

The working method adopted by the Authors has much recourse to archive documentation, to newspapers, printed material and posters of that time.

The first part, that is the result of multi-decennial researches in various private and public archives and especially in the Central one of the Italian State in Rome, presents a documentation that may be considered exhaustive of the activity of Italian Military in the year 1866. It also offers the composition of every Office of Military with the names of the various employees and even the compensation collected by them during this military campaign.
The documentation widely resorts to the postal norms in force: this is the reason for the opportune reproduction of laws, decrees, ordinances and newsletters published by various sources, especially about the important and precious "Bullettini postali" of 1866.

The second part, richly illustrated and presented by means of efficacious graphics, is the inventory, divided by office of Military, of the letters found out up to now (only 680 to April 2014). The overall data and then those of every single office have persuaded the Authors not to fix points nor to give evaluations to the various postmarks of Military. A reasonable and motivated choice that, reading numbers, readers will share too.

Every postal document is studied and described in every part: franking, rates and taxations, origins and destinations, disinfections and any other postal mark. Starting from the postmarks of the numerous offices operating in the two distinct phases of the Military System, all reproduced and illustrated in their peculiar use.

512 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2015
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ROUTES OF NON RETURN
Fallen of the 2nd Polish Corps
Fallen and lost of the South-East territory of Bari in WWII

The author commemorates testimonies and events that have marked the history of the Italian people. The study and the research of unreleased documents and images, copious and here reproduced, has allowed the author to give voice to lists otherwise destined to silence and oblivion. The researches have been made by the Offices of Civil State, the Archives of the districts involved, the Archive of State in Bari and in the web-site of the Ministry of Defence "Onorcaduti" (Fallen for Honour).

The first chapter is dedicated to the 2nd Polish Corps that, landing at Taranto in December 1943, used the territory of Puglia for logistic settlements. The subsequent chapters are dedicated to the fallen and lost during WWII of the districts of Adelfia, Casamassima, Cassano delle Murge, Cellamare, Palo del Colle, Sammichele di Bari and Turi; during the Italian - Greek conflict in the Aegean Sea: the shipwrecked of "Oria" and "Sinfra" steamships; in the Balkans; in East and North Africa; in the Mediterranean Sea; overseas; on the Italian territory. The work ends with the testimonies of fighters and partisans, among which Sandro Pertini.

402 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2015
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1860
LETTERS FROM THE WAR OF ITALY
ON THE TRAIL OF GARIBALDI'S SOLDIERS

The Authors use postal materials as historical source, relating the historical events to postal history, and vice versa, also thanks to the fortunate recovery of two letters of that period that are systematically analyzed.

The scenery is the enterprise of Garibaldi's Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of Two Sicilies: in this context, the system of postal communications that played a strategic role in it is examined. This central event of Italian Risorgimento is narrated from a different and unreleased viewpoint, highlighting also a slice of the daily life of some participants to Garibaldi's enterprise, exploring for the first time the contents of the letters that often narrate events in a different way.

The book develops in parallel a rigorous postal-historical study of the rates and of the ways of sending mail from and to the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, highlighting the fast changes in postal communication, determined by Garibaldi's advance and by the other events connected to the development of the Kingdom of Italy.

Dealing with a period of war and revolution, the Authors have found some difficulties in finding the norms that determined the changes in the correspondence rates.

400/384 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound with cover - printed 2015
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THE FRENCH ARMIES IN ITALY (1792-1814)
POSTAL HISTORY AND CATALOGUING
2 VOLUMES

The two authors have joint their competences in this tremendous work, rich of information and of reproductions of documents, maps, photographs, postal documents,..., divided into different chapters: historical placement according to the chronological criterion; the postal service of the Armée d'Italie; the Armée des Alpes in Piedmont and the relevant cataloguing of postal prints; the Armée de Reserve and the relevant cataloguing of postal prints; the cataloguing of the postal prints of the Armée d'Italie and of other French Armies in the period 1792-1814.

In the second volume, the catalogue lists the letters found according to origin, dating, kind of postmark and colour. No valuations are present.

208 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
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THE POSTAL TALE OF THE GREAT WAR
The origins of mass communication in Italy and in Romagna
Propaganda and satire in World War I

The Great War put, for the first time, European masses in front of the ideologies, of the hopes and of the fears of a complex, technological and globalized world: it was the big bang of contemporary age for the Old Continent. Thanks to a wide iconographic archive, this books aims to reminisce the tragedy of World War I, by means of more than 250 images in which myths, symbols and rites of the Great War are represented in figures of rare suggestion. In the year zero of communication, iconographies and postal items produced from 1914 to 1919, in the public and private sphere, generate a mosaic of chronicle and images that can now narrate the conflict at the origin of our society: from the revivals of Dante and Garibaldi to the development of modern propaganda, from refined illustrators to the desecrating political satire, passing through the heroes of Romagna, the birth of the American myth, the bombing of Ravenna, the legend of Baracca, until victory.

264 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2015
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FORGOTTEN HEROES
ITALIAN MILITARY INTERNEES
IN THE GERMAN FIELDS 1943-1945

By this book the author intends to cast full light on the troubled events of the 770,000 Italian soldiers captured and kept in captivity by the German soldiers after 8 September 1943.

The Italian military internees were, even more than the prisoners of war, at the mercy of the German Commands, since, because of their anomalous "status", not foreseen by the international treaties, they were not safeguarded by the Geneva Convention of 1929, remaining outside its field of application.
This subject is dealt exhaustively in the first part of the book, also thanks to the numerous documents present in it.
The second part examines the Feldpost numbers of the Prison Camps and of the prisoner formations, with the insertion of the abbreviation table to facilitate their reading. Almost 60 pages are devoted to the censor marks used in the different camps.

For safety reasons, no internee could state the place where any German formation worked and where he was kept in. Nevertheless many cases can be found of correspondence whose text mentions the formation position, or bears a mark in the frontispiece with the place stamped in it.
Serious attention is paid to the verification of real situations, to have a picture as precise as possible of the extent of the Italian military internees, of their relocation - identifying the Camps and the formations where they were kept in - of the treatment they underwent, of the work organization, of their relationships, even towards the outside, by means of the correspondence, in spite of the censorship that primly limited every communication.

88 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
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THE CENSORSHIP OF FOREIGN MAIL IN ITALY
DURING WWI
Series: I Quaderni dell'Aicpm - n.8, 2018

With the collaboration by Beniamino Cadioli

On 23 May 1915, the day before Italy entered into WWI, the Italian Government proposed to the King the enactment of Royal decree no.689, by means of which postal censorship was established. Such decree is reported herein, together with the Regulation for the exercise of the censorship of mail from abroad and outbound.

The activity of censorship was indeed addressed mainly to correspondence coming from or going abroad. This led to the establishment on the Italian territory of appropriate foreign mail offices of military censorship in places conveniently selected and here pointed out: Bologna, Bologna - Rimini section, Milan, Genoa, Campione d'Italia, Ponte Chiasso, Valona, Trieste.

Almost one hundred are the covers and the postcards reproduced, with the relevant postmarks enlarged and highlighted, divided and catalogued by town.

422/360/272 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2018/2019
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THE GREAT WAR IN THE CENTENARY
2 VOLUMES + CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS

Work in two volumes plus catalogue, which illustrates all the Italian Military in the first world war.
After an exhausting, rigorous but narrative and very illustrated postal-historical foreword, the work catalogues all the offices of Military. It proposes for each the timeline of Italy's Unification, the postal-historical one, the life-size replica of all the postmarks known and one selection of documents, with high quality images. The first volume is about all the offices but the Division ones, dealt with in the second volume. The third volume, in smaller format, valuates all the postmark with a well-established point range.

204 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
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When war was by then compromised and Greece had already been completely abandoned, Hitler ordered thirty thousand men, among which many Italian, to defend at any cost a handful of islands in the Aegean Sea. The only connection between them and the rest of the world was a bold service of air mail.

This volume, reader-friendly and richly illustrated, represents a guide for the knowledge of Inselpost overprints, including rarities, varieties, plate errors; it helps to distinguish originals from fakes and to discover the few existing covers and their history.

64 pp. - colour ill. - softbound- printed 2018
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THE GREAT WAR
IN A FEMALE NARRATION

Completely illustrated with postcards, photos, postage stamps and documents, the volume gathers 14 articles appeared within four years in the magazine L'Arte del Francobollo, devoted to the Great War, seen by female eyes.

VIII/372 pp. - 350 colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2019
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POST OF THE ARMIES DURING THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870-71

The work focuses on the post services that accompanied the French and the German Armies during the war of 1870-71, characterized by a series of distinguished campaigns.

Six chapters deal each with the military of one of these campaigns, from the French and German point of views.
Two chapters, as well as three enclosures, describe the military correspondence that used other services, civil or private.
Annex A proposes the list of military Post Offices and depicts their postmarks for each campaign.
Annexes B and C inventory the correspondence surviving the sieges of Paris, Metz and Belfot.
Further annexes list the correspondence of the Paris army, the connections of fieldpost or deal with the correspondence of the French Navy, of prisoners of war, or of the one sent by means of the Red Cross.

The conflict appears through the movements of military Post Offices and this book proposes a detailed study of postmarks and of military postal organizations in France and Germany.

The work is based upon military correspondences of every kind, that are richly illustrated and that cast light on this war, that was as short as complex.

570 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2019
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TOP SECRET
AXIS VS ALLIED FORCES
Fake news in WWII
Espionage and psychological propaganda

A real war of propagandist communication between the Forces of the Axis and the Allies, capable of reviving the main war events by means of curiosities and heroic deeds.

More than 1500 images and original documents of that period (postcards, fliers, postage stamps, banknotes...), witness to real military or civil missions, oriented to manipulate and condition the psychological balance of the masses or of the enemy soldiers.

The "fake news" of WWII on paper, studied to modify the destiny of the conflict: operations of the secret services and of the anti - psychological propaganda systems of the main nations involved (Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, France, USA, Soviet Union).

198 pp. colour ill. - softbound - printed 2020
and attached quotation 2021
Copies not all numbered as per the author's information.
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IONIAN ISLANDS and moments of the Second World War

The political and military history of the Ionian Islands, a province of the Kingdom of Greece but for a short period annexed to the Kingdom of Italy of Vittorio Emanuele III, during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, told through postal history.

The historical and military-historical introduction, with explanatory maps of military and political events, is followed by the presentation of postal services thanks to postal documents, postage stamps, overprints, postmarks, censorship stamps, military post offices ...

Enclosed, "Valuations of postal items and postage stamps"

156 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
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PRISONERS OF WAR POST CARD
Words and news from the "concentration" camps

There are numerous items made by the Allied Armed Forces which, during the Second World War, were sent from the "concentration" camps by the Italian and German soldiers. Of only a part of these documents for correspondence by prisoners of war it is possible to know details concerning printing, quantities and sometimes the name or initials of the printer.

Divided into different macro areas based on origin (Europe, Africa, India, USA, Canada), over 300 postcards are reproduced, many front and back, highlighting the details that characterize them.