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Paolo Bianchi
LETTRES DE LA GRANDE ARMÉE
Histoire de l'organisation des postes au sein de la plus Grande Armée du XIX siècle
1805-1814
Histoire de l'organisation des postes au sein de la plus Grande Armée du XIX siècle
1805-1814
LETTERS OF THE GRANDE ARMÉE
The history of the mail organization inside the Greatest Army of the XIX century
1805-1814
The history of the mail organization inside the Greatest Army of the XIX century
1805-1814
Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2022
144 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2022
English and French text
Letters sent by soldiers to their parents or wives provide us with an insight into their lives.
We learn how both common soldiers and high-ranking officers continuously travelled the roads, as long as the fighting continued, looking for basic essentials, such as something to eat or a place to sleep.
The author has focused on the highly original theme of mail sent by the second Grande Armée, which was created for the Russian campaign.
This period was characterised by increasing difficulties affecting the organisation of postal services and losses suffered by the serviceman responsible for carrying mail who were hounded by the Cossacks.
The study concludes with an exhaustive list of all the postmarks used by the 2nd Grande Armée.
CONTENTS
* Preface of the President of the Club de Monte-Carlo
* Foreword of the author
* The First Grande Armée 1805-1808
* The Second Grande Armée 1812-1814
* Handstamps for allowance
* List of the postmarks of the Second Grande Armée
* Bibliography
Giorgio Cerruto - Roberto Colla
FRANCHIGIA MILITARE ITALIANA 1912-1946
Prima Parte - Prima Guerra Mondiale
Cartoline in Franchigia non ufficiali
Prima Parte - Prima Guerra Mondiale
Cartoline in Franchigia non ufficiali
440 pp. - 2500 colour ill. - softbound - 3rd ed. 2009
POINTS VALUATIONS
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
First part - First World War
Unofficial post-free postcards
The present catalogue deals with Italian unofficial post-free postcards relevant to the First World War, that is those postcards printed by private companies or associations for soldiers.
Edition completely revised with respect to the previous ones, also thanks to the cooperation of several lovers of the subject.
A value for each used or unused item of postal stationery has been given. Point evaluations are based on availability, demand, preservation and aesthetic aspect.
Some useful appendixes close the work.
CONTENTS
* Preface
* Introduction
* Evaluation scale
* Notes
CLASSIFICATION OF UNOFFICIAL FREE FRANKING POSTCARDS
* First World War 1915-1918: heading only inscription; heading with flag/s on the right; heading with flag/s on the left; heading with royal coat of arms on the right; heading with royal coat of arms on the left; heading with coat of arms in the middle, or with decorations, different symbols, etc.
APPENDIX
* List of headquarters and units of the Army
* List of headquarters and units of the Medical Corps
* List of postcards with headings of ships
Cod. 927E
EUR 18,00
Giovanni Riggi di Numana
LE MISSIONI MILITARI DI PACE DELL'ITALIA 1991-1995
190 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 1997
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
Italian military peace missions abroad (Palestine, ex Yugoslavia, Iraq, Albania, Somalia, Mozambique) have been, in Italian recent history, one of the best expressions of the civilization, culture and humanity of Italian people. Whenever troops leave their homeland under Italian tricolour, supported by the flag of the United Nations, there are always great problems in the communication between the troops on mission and their country.
The present work tells the postal historical happenings of Italian peace contingents, describing first the political situation within which the missions originated, then analysing their postal aspects between 1991 (end of Gulf War) and 1995 (start of the expedition to Bosnia), concluding with many technical tables dedicated to each expedition. Texts by the following authors: Brunello Bellucci, Nadir Castagneri, Vittorio Crosa, Roberto Cruciani, Giovanni Riggi from Numana, Alberto Scuffia, G. Battista Trovero.
Giuseppe Tomasoni - Carmelo Nuvoli
LA GRANDE GUERRA
Raccontata dalle cartoline
Raccontata dalle cartoline
344 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - large format - ed. 2004
Italian text
ISBN: 9788888203249
THE FIRST WORLD WARTold by postcards
The volume illustrates, through postcards of the time, the First World War, paying particular attention to the Alps front which belonged, to 4 November 1918, to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and was part of Tyrol.
The events are told on the basis of newspapers, magazines, diaries and books of the time, and original documents never produced before.
Giuseppe Marchese
IL SERVIZIO POSTALE DELLA MARINA MILITARE - vol.II
L'ARMATA NAVALE NELLA PRIMA GUERRA 1915-1918
L'ARMATA NAVALE NELLA PRIMA GUERRA 1915-1918
520 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2004
VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian text
THE NAVAL ARMY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1915-1918
The volume is divided into two parts: the first one deals with the real naval army and the second one with all kinds of auxiliary ships. Battleships, cruisers, scout ships, destroyers, torpedo-boats, submarines, MAS. And then school ships, hydrographic ships, cable-ships, tankers, transport ships, tugboats, dredges, pontoons, monitors, lighters, hospital ships, ...
All the ships have been listed in alphabetical order.
Giuseppe Marchese
IL SERVIZIO POSTALE DELLA MARINA MILITARE - vol.I
DALLE CROCIERE ALLA GRANDE GUERRA 1892-1915
DALLE CROCIERE ALLA GRANDE GUERRA 1892-1915
350 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2004
VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian text
FROM CRUISES TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1892-1915
The volume is divided into different parts.
The first one deals with the period before the postal agreement of 1892 between the Ministries of the Post and the Navy; the postal agreement and the first stage of its application.
Then the postal historical part with chapters devoted to franking and military free franking, and to the postal service on board.
In the second part - the main one - the historical treatment, that is all the events connected to ships outside national ports, cruises in the Atlantic and some missions in the Red Sea, the Italian-Turkish war commonly called "Libyan War". Most important ships are illustrated and all the postmarks known are reproduced; there are also valuation tables for each period.
In the third part, there is the list and description of merchant ships chartered or commandeered during the Italian-Turkish War.
In the fourth one, there is the list of postal regulations for military free franking, postal rates and valuation of letters according to the rate used.
At the end an index with the ships operating in the period.
Vito Salierno
BIBLIOGRAFIA FILATELICA E STORICO POSTALE RAGIONATA
POSTA MILITARE
POSTA MILITARE
147 pp. - softbound - printed 1994
Italian text
Complete collection of works and magazines, both Italian and foreign, which deal with Italian military Post. A praiseworthy bibliographical research, really useful for collectors and postal historians.
Ricciotti Garibaldi
LA CAMICIA ROSSA
NELLA GUERRA BALCANICA
CAMPAGNA IN EPIRO 1912
NELLA GUERRA BALCANICA
CAMPAGNA IN EPIRO 1912
260 pp. - b/w and colour photographs of the time - format cm 15x21 - softbound - printed 2007
Table, in colour, with the map representing the operations of the Italian-Greek legion and of the battle in Drisko
series "Meeting History"
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)
ISBN: 978-88-85335-91-2
THE REDSHIRTSIN THE BALKAN WAR
CAMPAIGN IN EPIRUS 1912
With the cooperation of Annita Garibaldi Jallet and of the Museum of Villa Garibaldi in Riofreddo (Rome).
Many thanks to the National Committee for Celebrations of the Bicentenary of Giuseppe Garibaldi's birth.
Foreword by Annita Garibaldi Jallet.
Garibaldis and their topicality, conversation with Annita Garibaldi Jallet by Fabio Bonacina.
Introduction by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi.
On the occasion of the birth bicentenary of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the "hero of the two worlds", a volume written by his son, Ricciotti Garibaldi. New edition of the work published in 1915, in which the author describes the military background and the participation of the Italian volunteers under his command in the first Balkan war in Greece.
It was in the operations towards Ioannina that Ricciotti's "redshirts" took part, and particularly in the battle in Drisko (small town in the area). Subject of the volume the antecedent facts, the battle in Drisko, the following events, the epilogue, that is the adventure of "redshirts" in Epirus in 1912. Moreover, a whole chapter is devoted to the Italian Red Cross, who accompanied and assisted the Redshirts with their precious work, with the help of the Greek Blue Cross too. Constance Garibaldi, Ricciotti's wife, and Inspector of the Red Cross, in a long letter tells about some particularly touching episodes.
The author, who led the campaign, and is therefore also protagonist of the story, writes in the first person a mix between an account and memoirs, quite a technical report accompanied by many documents which testify the happenings told (one of the reasons which led the editor to publish a new edition of the work). There is the romantic myth of Hellenism; the civilian myth of the volunteer "redshirts"; comments on the volunteer troops; the sense of comradeship but also of boldness.
Thanks to this volume, readers can now realize what kind of war it was, the extent of armed forces and fire, but also the "spirit" of that campaign. A picture of an event which remained in Italian memory.
CONTENTS
* Foreword, Annita Garibaldi Jallet
* Table, in colour, with the map representing the operations of the Italian-Greek legion and of the battle in Drisko
* Garibaldis and their topicality, conversation with Annita Garibaldi Jallet, Fabio Bonacina
* Introduction, Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi
* Dedication, Ricciotti Garibaldi
* I - Greece and Italy
* II - Greece
* III - Preparations in Italy
* IV - From Rome to Athens
* V - Some incidents
* VI - From Athens to Metzovo
* VII - Romas Column
* VIII - Battle in Drisko
* IX - The field hospital
* X - From Drisko to Athens
* XI - Accountancy
* XII - Documents
* XIII - Notes of promotions
* XIV - Note of volunteers
* XV - Summary note of jobs
* XVI - Alphabetical note
Ricciotti was born in Montevideo in 1847, fourth born of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro.
From 1866 he distinguishes himself on the battlefields. When his father dies, in 1882, he wants to collect his moral heritage, the values of military voluntary service and of philhellenism which belonged to Garibaldian tradition. It is Greece which gives him the possibility to revive the tradition of Garibaldi's "Redshirts", already from 1897. The General Ricciotti succeeds in realising his true inclination: at the head of new Garibaldian volunteers, he creates a new military tradition, which intervenes in favour of peoples' freedom, and pays attention to the values of heroism and sacrifice in the name of a nation.
He dies in Riofreddo (Rome) in 1924.
From 1866 he distinguishes himself on the battlefields. When his father dies, in 1882, he wants to collect his moral heritage, the values of military voluntary service and of philhellenism which belonged to Garibaldian tradition. It is Greece which gives him the possibility to revive the tradition of Garibaldi's "Redshirts", already from 1897. The General Ricciotti succeeds in realising his true inclination: at the head of new Garibaldian volunteers, he creates a new military tradition, which intervenes in favour of peoples' freedom, and pays attention to the values of heroism and sacrifice in the name of a nation.
He dies in Riofreddo (Rome) in 1924.
Cod. 1970E
EUR 15,00
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EUR 12,00
HISTORY BOOK
Fabio Bonacina
LA SALMA NASCOSTA
MUSSOLINI DOPO PIAZZALE LORETO
DA CERRO MAGGIORE A PREDAPPIO
(1946-1957)
MUSSOLINI DOPO PIAZZALE LORETO
DA CERRO MAGGIORE A PREDAPPIO
(1946-1957)
192 pp. - b/w ill. - format cm 15x21 - softbound - 2nd ed. 2007 - series "Meeting History"
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)
ISBN: 978-88-85335-77-6
THE HIDDEN CORPSEMUSSOLINI AFTER PIAZZALE LORETO
FROM CERRO MAGGIORE TO PREDAPPIO
(1946-1957)
29/30 August 1957 - 2007
From Cerro Maggiore to Predappio: Benito Mussolini's last "journey"
Where did Benito Mussolini's corpse disappear after Piazzale Loreto?
For eleven years the Italian Republic kept it hidden from enemies and Neofascists, using the monastery of Capuchin friars in Cerro Maggiore (Milan).
The author, Fabio Bonacina, carried on a useful investigation to follow the events through documents and several testimonies from people who lived those years as protagonists or simple witnesses, and through the many postcards with the images relevant to those events.
CONTENTS
* Last days of life
* The "show" in piazzale Loreto
* The problem of the corpse
* The return in Milan
* Padre Carlo from Milan, as if from Cerro
* The solution is in the monastery of Cerro Maggiore
* The years of the secret (1946-1957)
* The corpse given to the family
* A heavy inheritance to handle
* Padre Carlo's diary
* A monastery and its growth
* With the guests of the Central hotel
* Notes
* Bibliography
IN ITALIAN
Il saggio di Fabio Bonacina narra le vicende della salma di un uomo, per vent'anni al centro della storia d'Italia, che giunse, dopo le drammatiche vicende di Giulino e di piazzale Loreto, in un piccolo e, diciamolo pure, sconosciuto ai più, paese della provincia milanese.
Il libro è già alla sua seconda edizione a dimostrazione che le vicende narrate hanno suscitato un interesse che ha travalicato i confini locali.
Le recensioni alla prima edizione hanno trovato spazio sui media nazionali e il saggio è stato citato nella bibliografia di altri lavori. Un esemplare del libro è conservato alla Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti. Persino una pièce teatrale si è ispirata alle vicende narrate nel libro.
In effetti la ricerca ha il pregio di aver colmato un vuoto storico e a oggi rimane l'unico testo che ricostruisce in maniera esemplare e minuziosa le vicende della «Salma nascosta».
Esso è quindi strumento indispensabile allo studioso, ma la sua lettura è di sicuro interesse anche al semplice appassionato di storia che avrà modo di conoscere una vicenda che a tratti assume i contorni di un giallo.
Ormai i protagonisti di quegli anni sono quasi tutti scomparsi. Nel suo piccolo, come uno scrigno, questo lavoro raccoglie frammenti di vita di uomini semplici, come il fotografo Igino Braghin o la balia Enrichetta Rotondi. Uomini e donne che non recitarono sul palcoscenico della storia, ma più semplicemente nella quotidianità delle loro famiglie e del loro paese. Ricordarli è un doveroso atto di affetto della nostra Comunità. Ecco perché questo non è solo il libro della salma di Mussolini, ma anche il loro.
Antonio Lazzati
Sindaco di Cerro Maggiore (Milano)
luglio 2007
Il saggio di Fabio Bonacina narra le vicende della salma di un uomo, per vent'anni al centro della storia d'Italia, che giunse, dopo le drammatiche vicende di Giulino e di piazzale Loreto, in un piccolo e, diciamolo pure, sconosciuto ai più, paese della provincia milanese.
Il libro è già alla sua seconda edizione a dimostrazione che le vicende narrate hanno suscitato un interesse che ha travalicato i confini locali.
Le recensioni alla prima edizione hanno trovato spazio sui media nazionali e il saggio è stato citato nella bibliografia di altri lavori. Un esemplare del libro è conservato alla Biblioteca del Congresso degli Stati Uniti. Persino una pièce teatrale si è ispirata alle vicende narrate nel libro.
In effetti la ricerca ha il pregio di aver colmato un vuoto storico e a oggi rimane l'unico testo che ricostruisce in maniera esemplare e minuziosa le vicende della «Salma nascosta».
Esso è quindi strumento indispensabile allo studioso, ma la sua lettura è di sicuro interesse anche al semplice appassionato di storia che avrà modo di conoscere una vicenda che a tratti assume i contorni di un giallo.
Ormai i protagonisti di quegli anni sono quasi tutti scomparsi. Nel suo piccolo, come uno scrigno, questo lavoro raccoglie frammenti di vita di uomini semplici, come il fotografo Igino Braghin o la balia Enrichetta Rotondi. Uomini e donne che non recitarono sul palcoscenico della storia, ma più semplicemente nella quotidianità delle loro famiglie e del loro paese. Ricordarli è un doveroso atto di affetto della nostra Comunità. Ecco perché questo non è solo il libro della salma di Mussolini, ma anche il loro.
Antonio Lazzati
Sindaco di Cerro Maggiore (Milano)
luglio 2007
Fabio Bonacina, a journalist, mainly works in public communication, but he also writes about stamps and the post. The newspapers and magazines that have published his articles include "Cronaca filatelica", "L'arte del francobollo", "Vaccari magazine", "Esperienza", "Giornale di Brescia", and "Italia oggi". He is President of the Italian Philatelic Press Union since 2014, and editor of the daily web magazine of philately and postal information "Vaccari news" (www.vaccarinews.it) since 2003.
He has been awarded the prize by Usfi (Italian Philatelic Press Union) in 2010, he has obtained the award for journalism by the Town of Riccione in 2006, and the oscar for philately by Circolo filatelico numismatico reggiano in 2002.
For this publisher he has written the books "Propaganda con i denti - Il francobollo come mezzo di comunicazione nelle relazioni internazionali, il secondo dopoguerra"; "La salma nascosta - Mussolini a Cerro Maggiore dopo piazzale Loreto (1946-1957)", published in two editions; "Giovanni Paolo II - Viaggi di speranza - I francobolli del mondo testimoniano le visite di Papa Wojtyla", translated into English and German (English edition "John Paul II - Visits of hope - World stamps witness the travels of Pope Wojtyla"); "Campioni del mondo - I francobolli dei Paesi organizzatori e vincitori dei Mondiali di calcio 1930-2006"; "Buon Natale! Il libro-album per la raccolta dei francobolli italiani sul Natale 1970-2010"; "Habemus Papam. Tutti i Papi da Francesco a Pio XII. Il libro-album dei francobolli italiani"; "Campioni del mondo 2 - I francobolli dei Paesi organizzatori e vincitori dei Mondiali di calcio 2010-2014".
He has been awarded the prize by Usfi (Italian Philatelic Press Union) in 2010, he has obtained the award for journalism by the Town of Riccione in 2006, and the oscar for philately by Circolo filatelico numismatico reggiano in 2002.
For this publisher he has written the books "Propaganda con i denti - Il francobollo come mezzo di comunicazione nelle relazioni internazionali, il secondo dopoguerra"; "La salma nascosta - Mussolini a Cerro Maggiore dopo piazzale Loreto (1946-1957)", published in two editions; "Giovanni Paolo II - Viaggi di speranza - I francobolli del mondo testimoniano le visite di Papa Wojtyla", translated into English and German (English edition "John Paul II - Visits of hope - World stamps witness the travels of Pope Wojtyla"); "Campioni del mondo - I francobolli dei Paesi organizzatori e vincitori dei Mondiali di calcio 1930-2006"; "Buon Natale! Il libro-album per la raccolta dei francobolli italiani sul Natale 1970-2010"; "Habemus Papam. Tutti i Papi da Francesco a Pio XII. Il libro-album dei francobolli italiani"; "Campioni del mondo 2 - I francobolli dei Paesi organizzatori e vincitori dei Mondiali di calcio 2010-2014".
Amedeo Palmieri
1848-1862 LA POSTA MILITARE TOSCANA
1849-1855 L'OCCUPAZIONE AUSTRIACA DELLA TOSCANA
1849-1855 L'OCCUPAZIONE AUSTRIACA DELLA TOSCANA
206 pp. - b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and cover
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
Fourth volume of the Monograph on Tuscany Post which concludes the work by Filippo Bargagli Petrucci. Unique text in the field with historical investigations, introductory notes, reproductions of letters, postmarks and decrees of the period.
Luciano Buzzetti
POSTE MILITARI ITALIANE della prima guerra mondiale
(Fronte Italiano e Albanese)
(Fronte Italiano e Albanese)
295 pp. - softbound - printed 1991
VALUATIONS IN IT LIRE
Italian text
Copies with very slight DEFECTS only in the cover but inside perfectly spotless
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)
Catalogue of Italian military post cancels during First World War from mobilization period in 1915.
The cancels have been divided into six groups: «Guller» cancels with «Ufficio Posta Militare» or «Direzione Posta Militare» legend; «Guller» cancels with «Posta Militare» legend; date cancels used in the place of «Guller»; detached units (coast battalions, hospitals, assistance organizations, military contingents) oval, circle, square cancels; other cancels used as cancellations (unvalued); all censor cancels (unvalued).
Gianni Giannoccolo
I MILITARI ITALIANI NELLE FORMAZIONI GERMANICHE 1943-1945
254 pp. - ill. b/w - hardbound - printed 1996
Italian text
In this monograph the author, on the bases of correspondences and decrees, locates about 2,000 Feldpost formations in which he has discovered the presence of Italian soldiers (volunteer troops, servicemen, collaborators, workers, etc.). With a philological care, he develops and reconstructs the Italian Army destiny after the armistice of 8 September 1943, completing the historical picture with unpublished material.
CONTENTS
* Introduction
* The first directives of German headquarters after 8 September
* The situation in the different theatres after three months from 8 September
* Enlistment of volunteers and collaborators
* Locations
* Correspondence
* Censorship
* The role of the Red Cross in German formations
* List of the Feldpost numbers and their location
Mario e Toni Caldiron
L'OCCUPAZIONE FRANCESE
DEL FEZZAN
NELLA LIBIA ITALIANA
avec un résumé en langue française
DEL FEZZAN
NELLA LIBIA ITALIANA
avec un résumé en langue française
192 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - printed 1997
Italian text with a summary in French
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
IN ITALIAN LIBYA
Mainly based on the sources of the collection of the authors, this study sketches a complete historical and postal historical general picture of the postage stamps of Fezzan.
"Fezzan is only a little piece of "our" Africa, a negligible territory of the Sahara desert, but still a territory of the Italian colony of Libya. The charm of the collections "of war" led me inevitably to collect and study the postage stamps of Italian colonies and, as soon as my specialization made me dedicate to the events, the adventurous story of the French conquest of Fezzan appeared. I found out a particular fact: postage stamps and postal documents were different from the others in that they were the only ones to testify Italian presence. Fezzan was in fact the only foreign occupation of Italian Africa that continued to use Italian postage stamps, documents and postal labels."
Cateno Nisi
LA POSTA MILITARE ITALIANA IN SICILIA NELLA SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE
176 pp. - 185 illustrations - format cm 20x27 - softbound - printed 1991
series "History through documents"
Italian text
ISBN: 88-85335-03-9
978-88-85335-03-5
ITALIAN MILITARY POST IN SICILY DURING SECOND WORLD WAR978-88-85335-03-5
Twenty-two chapters of historical witness to the Anglo-American military occupation of Sicily. Full documentation including previously unpublished pieces of information. Preface by Vito Salierno.
Aldo Pozzolini Gobbi
POSTA MILITARE NELLA GUERRA DI INDIPENDENZA ITALIANA E NELLA CAMPAGNA DI CRIMEA
195 pp. - 10 colour plates - 175 b/w ill. - hardbound
MILITARY POST DURING THE ITALIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGNThe volume illustrates the famous collection of Aldo Pozzolini Gobbi. It is the most complete collection of postal documents and relics related to the wars of Independence, the expedition to Crimea and the war in the East.
These documents are presented respecting the layout chosen by the collector, in order to preserve an historical record of the whole collection.
Carlo Ciullo
I SEGNATASSE PROVVISORI DI BOLZANO E DELL'ALTO ADIGE
alla fine della prima guerra mondiale
alla fine della prima guerra mondiale
LOKALE PORTOPROVISORIEN IN BOZEN UND SÜDTIROL
am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges
am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges
128 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 1999
Italian and German text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)
The first world war is at its end. On 3/11/1918 Italy and Austria subscribe a Peace Treaty, which will be signed only on 10/9/1919. In Bolzano and Upper Adige reigns a situation of uncertainty about the destiny of the occupied territory, which influences also the postal service.
The forwarding of mail during these months is really difficult for the authorities in charge, above all when letters are not franked or only partly franked. On the one hand, the territory is under Italian occupation – therefore forced to use Italian postage due labels; on the other hand, these labels, even overprinted, are completely lacking, at least up to the first days of March 1919. This situation compels the Main Post Office in Trent to authorize, with two circulars, Upper Adige post offices to transform, whenever necessary, the postage stamps into provisional postage due labels through hand-stamp or overprint. Each office has the possibility to take its own measures.
Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi
1954 IL SERVIZIO POSTALE RITORNA ALL'ITALIA
1918-1954 pagine di storia triestina
1918-1954 pagine di storia triestina
XXII+218 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - fine art quality paper - printed 2004
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
1918-1954 pages of Trieste history
The volume is the catalogue of the exhibition held on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the return to Italy of Trieste. It presents the history of the Post and philately in Venetia Julia and Dalmatia from the Austrian period to 1954 with about 300 photographs and material never published before.
edited by Beniamino Cadioli, Benito Carobene, Emanuele M. Gabbini, Gianfranco Mazzucco, Nicolino Parlapiano e Piero Macrelli
TARIFFE POSTALI DEI PAESI ITALIANI
CATALOGO DEI BOLLI DELLA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE
ANNUARIO A.I.C.P.M. 2008
CATALOGO DEI BOLLI DELLA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE
ANNUARIO A.I.C.P.M. 2008
376 pp. - no ill. - softbound - printed 2008
WITH VALUATIONS
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class B)
CATALOGUE OF POSTMARKS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
AICPM YEARBOOK 2008
Italian association for collectors of Military
Besides the update of the Aicpm yearbook, two important studies gathered in one volume.
The "Postal rates of the Italian territories" by Benito Carobene is the second part of the work published in 2005 with the Italian rates from 1863 to 2000. It takes into consideration all the rates in force during the period of use of the postage stamps issued in that period and used in Italy or in the Italian area. Services included are those relevant only to mail. No air mail. The examination covers the period from 1 March 1861 or 1 April 1879 (abroad) to 2000.
The "Catalogue of Italian military postmarks in the first world war" by Beniamino Cadioli lists all the circle postmarks, mainly the date metal ones, with some exception, that is those used as cancellers of postage stamps or used in transit on mail, generally by the military depots. No Navy. Some quotations are included.
CONTENTS
- L'Associazione - I soci - Le pubblicazioni
- Indice bibliografico della rivista "Posta Militare" dal 1974 al 2008
TARIFFE POSTALI DEI PAESI ITALIANI di Benito Carobene
- Premessa - Errata Corrige al Tariffario italiano - Aggiunta alle tariffe pubblicate nel 2004 - Tariffe postali per l'interno dell'Italia - Italia, tariffe per l'estero - Antichi stati - Regno Lombardo Veneto - Ducato di Modena - Ducato di Parma - Stato Pontificio - Governo provvisorio delle Romagne - Regno di Sardegna - Regno delle Due Sicilie - Granducato di Toscana - Repubblica Sociale Italiana - Servizi comunali - Tariffe postali in vigore a Campione - Coralit e Sabe - Repubblica di San Marino - Città del Vaticano - Occupazione anglo-americana della Venezia Giulia - Trieste Zona A - Occupazione austriaca del Friuli - Terre redente: Trentino e Venezia Giulia - Dalmazia - Fiume - Corfù - Saseno - Occupazione italiana: Albania, Grecia, Lubiana e Fiumano Kupa, Montenegro - Sicilia, occupazione alleata - Napoli, governo militare alleato - Occupazione croata di Sebenico e Spalato - Occupazione greca dell'Albania - Occupazione jugoslava di Lubiana, dell'Istria e del Litorale sloveno - Amministrazione tedesca: Albania, Lubiana e Zante, Zara - Uffici all'estero - Uso dei francobolli "estero" negli uffici di Alessandria, La Goletta, Susa, Tripoli e Tunisi, e negli uffici dell'America - Uffici italiani nel Levante - Uffici italiani in Cina: Pechino e Tientsin - Colonie italiane - Somalia italiana - Occupazione inglese delle colonie italiane, della Cirenaica, dell'Egeo, dell'Eritrea, della Somalia, della Tripolitania - Occupazione francese del Fezzan - Somalia Afis
CATALOGO-INVENTARIO DEI BOLLI DELLA POSTA MILITARE ITALIANA NELLA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE di Beniamino Cadioli
Introduzione - Uffici di concentramento P.M. - Campi di riordinamento, centri di raccolta, ecc. - Direzioni postali - Uffici d'intendenza - Uffici di Comandi d'Armata e Grandi Unità similari - Uffici dei Corpi d'Armata - Uffici delle Divisioni - Bolli Albania e Truppe occupazione - Bolli a numero - Bolli di P.M. parzialmente muti - Altri bolli attinenti la prima guerra mondiale
by Centro Studi Internazionale di Storia Postale
RISORGIMENTO ITALIANO
150° ANNIVERSARIO UNITÀ D'ITALIA - 2 voll.
UOMINI E VICENDE - MITI E VALORI
ITALIA CARA - ITALIA BELLA - Lettere dei combattenti votati alla Patria
150° ANNIVERSARIO UNITÀ D'ITALIA - 2 voll.
UOMINI E VICENDE - MITI E VALORI
ITALIA CARA - ITALIA BELLA - Lettere dei combattenti votati alla Patria
2 vols. - 271+319 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2011
Italian text
150th ANNIVERSARY ITALIAN UNITY - 2 Volumes:
MEN AND EVENTS - MYTHS AND VALUES
DEAR ITALY - BEAUTIFUL ITALY - Letters from the combatants consecrated to their Country Home
On the occasion of the travelling exhibition organized by Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Città di Asola, Associazione Filatelica Numismatica Scaligera, Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Banino to celebrate 150 years from the Unity of Italy, two volumes tell us about Italian Risorgimento events through essays, writings, correspondence from war combatants.
Hundreds of letters transcribed as they were, a direct picture of the real happenings of those years.
Giuseppe D. Jannaci
I LAGER DEI VINTI
I campi di concentramento
per i soldati della R.S.I.
Notizie storiche e profilo storico-postale
I campi di concentramento
per i soldati della R.S.I.
Notizie storiche e profilo storico-postale
160 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - 2nd ed. 2011
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)
Postal history outline of concetration camps for RSI soldiers
Historical and postal-historical information
The author leads us through a real minefield, the RSI field post, touching the zone regarding tens of thousands of young people who, between 1943 and 1945, followed the call-up of the Italian Republican National Government. These were nearly soldiers "of fortune" who received the official recognition of the status of servicemen by the Allies; however, once imprisoned in the concentration camps, they were not treated on the bases of the Geneva Convention, not even as to permission to correspond. Jannaci has individuated more than 110 detention places for soldiers of the Italian National Republican Army, from Oltano to the prisons such as Forte Boccea, to the extermination camps created in Yugoslavia.
The present second edition, with the support of the Association for the Families of RSI Fallen and Missing Men, has been updated with descriptions of camps and information unknown at the time of the first edition; additions have been included in the bibliography and new images never published before have been added.
CONTENTS
Preface
Prisoners of war?
How prisoners were treated
Postal-historical considerations
The Camps
Index of abbreviations and initials
Bibliography
List of concentration camps
Approximate figures of camps
Index of names
Giuseppe Marchese
LA POSTA MILITARE ITALIANA 1939-1945
Seconda Guerra Mondiale
I BOLLI POSTALI
Seconda Guerra Mondiale
I BOLLI POSTALI
416 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - 4th ed. 2011
POINT VALUATIONS WITH RANGE IN EURO
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)
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.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
Evaluation scale
General post offices
Depots and Military Post postmarks
Military Post in A.O.I. (Italian East Africa)
Numeral Military Post Offices
List of Military Post in the different fronts
Charmian Brinson - William Kaczynski
FLEEING FROM THE FÜHRER
A POSTAL HISTORY OF
REFUGEES FROM THE NAZIS
A POSTAL HISTORY OF
REFUGEES FROM THE NAZIS
192 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - 1st ed. 2011
English text
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.
Cod. 2420E
EUR 35,00
The author will donate his profits to "ANGSA PUGLIA ONLUS" (National Association for Autistic People Parents).
Vitoronzo Pastore
DIETRO IL FILO SPINATO
documenti e testimonianze dei soldati italiani
prigionieri degli alleati e internati dai tedeschi
1940-1945
documenti e testimonianze dei soldati italiani
prigionieri degli alleati e internati dai tedeschi
1940-1945
608 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2011
Italian text
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.
Cod. 2461E
EUR 50,00
Special Price
EUR 40,00
CD ALSO AVAILABLE (249 additional pages with all the postmarks) - CODE 2459E
LA POSTA DELLE MISSIONI MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2010
Catalogo ragionato di classificazione e valutazione
DAL 1950 AL 2010
Catalogo ragionato di classificazione e valutazione
278 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - softbound - 2nd ed. 2013
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text
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.
CONTENTS
Premessa
Il materiale classificato e valutato
I tipi di posta
La "posta di favore"
La "posta facilitata"
La "posta provocata"
La "posta naturale"
I Servizi Postali addizionali
Le corrispondenze arrivate ai Contingenti
La posta navale ed aerea
Bolli aggiuntivi particolari, firme, ecc.
Materiale postale di appoggio alle Missioni
Principi generali di classificazione e valutazione
Scala di valori in punti e corrispondenti valori economici
Tavole di classificazione
Legenda
Classificazione delle Missioni "Oltremare"
Missioni estere secondo lo Stato Maggiore della Difesa (SMD)
Missioni estere secondo lo Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito (SME)
Classificazioni delle Missioni secondo il DPKO dell'ONU
Tabella riepilogativa delle Missioni italiane all'estero
Operazioni "Ippocampo" e "Allied Force"
Schede delle singole Missioni
Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Bosnia Erzegovina
Cambogia
Ciad
Cipro
Congo
Danubio
El Salvador
Etiopia- Eritrea
Georgia
Golfo Persico
Guatemala
Guerra del Golfo
Haiti
Hebron (Cisgiordania)
India-Pakistan
Iran
Iran-Iraq
Iraq
Iraq-Kuwait
Kosovo
Kurdistan - Airone
Kuwait
Libano
Macedonia
Malta
Marocco
Mar Rosso
Medio Oriente
Moldova-Ucraina
Mostar
Mozambico
Namibia
Naqoura
Oceano Indiano
Palestina-Egitto
Palestina
Pakistan
Sahara Occidentale
Sharm-el Sheik
Senegal
Somalia
Sudan
Timor Est
Ringraziamenti
Bibliografia
Articoli e monografie
Siti WEB
Missioni internazionale concluse
Indice missioni in ordine alfabetico
Cod. 2459E
EUR 30,00
Special Price
EUR 24,00
VOLUME ALSO AVAILABLE - CODE 2461E
LA POSTA DELLE MISSIONI
MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2010 - VERSIONE CD
Catalogo ragionato di classificazione e valutazione
MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2010 - VERSIONE CD
Catalogo ragionato di classificazione e valutazione
278+249 pp. with colour and b/w ill. in CD-rom - ed. 2013 - pdf file
POINT VALUATIONS
Italian text
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.
Cod. 2510E
EUR 20,00
The author will donate his profits to "ALOIS ALZHEIMER" Association, non-profit in Brindisi.
Vitoronzo Pastore
IL MASSACRO DELLA DIVISIONE ACQUI
1939-1943
Testimonianze dei sopravvissuti
1939-1943
Testimonianze dei sopravvissuti
462 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2013
Italian text
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.
Lorenzo Carra - G. e D. Carraro
1866. LA TERZA GUERRA D'INDIPENDENZA.
LA POSTA MILITARE ITALIANA
LA POSTA MILITARE ITALIANA
304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
Italian text
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.
CONTENTS
* Forward
* Introduction
* Chronology
* Chapter 1. Events and letters
* Chapter 2. Themes and episodes of the war
* Chapter 3. Italian Military
* Chapter 4. Letters and postmarks of Italian Military
* Chapter 5. Postmarks of Italian Military
* Chapter 6. The registers of the offices
* First phase
* Second phase
* Armed Bands in Venetia - Cadore Section
* Bibliography
* Acknowledgements
Vitoronzo Pastore
SENTIERI DEL NON RITORNO
Caduti del 2° Corpo Polacco
Caduti e dispersi del Sud-Est barese nella Guerra 1940-1945
Caduti del 2° Corpo Polacco
Caduti e dispersi del Sud-Est barese nella Guerra 1940-1945
512 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text
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.
Rocco Cassandri - Giuseppe Di Bella - Antonio Ferrario
1860
LETTERE DALLA GUERRA D'ITALIA
SULLE TRACCE DEI GARIBALDINI
LETTERE DALLA GUERRA D'ITALIA
SULLE TRACCE DEI GARIBALDINI
402 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2015
italian text
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.
Pietro Giribone - Paolo Vollmeier
LE ARMATE FRANCESI IN ITALIA (1792-1814)
STORIA POSTALE E CATALOGAZIONE
2 voll.
STORIA POSTALE E CATALOGAZIONE
2 voll.
400/384 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - hardbound with cover - printed 2015
Italian text
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.
Cod. 2603E
EUR 15,00
Francesco Billi
IL RACCONTO POSTALE DELLA GRANDE GUERRA
Origini della comunicazione di massa in Italia e in Romagna
Propaganda e satira nel primo conflitto mondiale
Origini della comunicazione di massa in Italia e in Romagna
Propaganda e satira nel primo conflitto mondiale
208 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text
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.
Gianni Giannoccolo
GLI EROI DIMENTICATI
GLI INTERNATI MILITARI ITALIANI
NEI CAMPI TEDESCHI 1943-1945
GLI INTERNATI MILITARI ITALIANI
NEI CAMPI TEDESCHI 1943-1945
264 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text
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.
Emilio Simonazzi
LA CENSURA POSTA ESTERA IN ITALIA
NELLA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE
I Quaderni dell'Aicpm - n.8, 2018
NELLA PRIMA GUERRA MONDIALE
I Quaderni dell'Aicpm - n.8, 2018
88 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
Italian text
WITH RANGE OF VALUATION OF POSTMARKS AND LABELS
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.
Beniamino Cadioli - Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi - Piero Macrelli
LA GRANDE GUERRA NEL CENTENARIO
2 voll. + CATALOGO DEI BOLLI POSTALI
2 voll. + CATALOGO DEI BOLLI POSTALI
422/360/272 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2018/2019
POINT VALUATIONS WITH RANGE IN EURO
Italian text
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.
Paolo Bonadei - Antonello Cerruti
INSELPOST
204 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
Italian text
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.
Rosalba Pigini
LA GRANDE GUERRA
NARRATA AL FEMMINILE
NARRATA AL FEMMINILE
64 pp. - colour ill. - softbound- printed 2018
Italian text
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.
CONTENTS
* 1° settembre 1914 Due colpi di pistola
* 13 ottobre 1914 Chi male comincia
* 28 gennaio 1915 Tutti insieme o contro?
* 24 maggio 1915 E guerra sia!
* 27 agosto 1915 Alba di sangue e di franchigia
* 28 gennaio 1916 La Grande Guerra mette le gonne
* 22 maggio 1916 La Grande Guerra entra in città
* 30 settembre 1916 La Grande Guerra è sempre più grande
* 31 gennaio 1917 Coi piedi nel fango della guerra
* 18 giugno 1917 Arrivano i nostri
* 5 dicembre 1917 l'Italia s'è rotta
* 14 maggio 1918 La guerra si veste di propaganda
* 29 giugno 1918 Gli angeli della notte
* 21 novembre 1918 Finalmente la parola Fine
Steven C. Walske
LES POSTES AUX ARMÉES DE LA GUERRE FRANCO-ALLEMANDE
DE 1870-71
DE 1870-71
VIII/372 pp. - 350 colour ill. - hardbound - printed 2019
French text
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.
Giorgio Leandro
TOP SECRET
ASSE VS ALLEATI
Fake news nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale
Spionaggio e Propaganda psicologica
ASSE VS ALLEATI
Fake news nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale
Spionaggio e Propaganda psicologica
570 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - printed 2019
Italian text
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).
Luigi Sirotti
LE ISOLE JONIE
e momenti della II guerra mondiale (1940-1945)
e momenti della II guerra mondiale (1940-1945)
198 pp. colour ill. - softbound - printed 2020
and attached quotation 2021
Copies not all numbered as per the author's information.
Italian text
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"
Riccardo Maini
CARTA POSTALE PER L'USO DEI PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA
Parole e notizie dai campi di "concentramento"
Parole e notizie dai campi di "concentramento"
156 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
Italian text
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.
Maurice Boule
LES ARMÉES DE BUONAPARTE À NAPOLEON
1793-1815
1793-1815
THE ARMIES FROM BUONAPARTE TO NAPOLEON
1793-1815
1793-1815
Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2022
882 pp. - colour ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2022
French and English text
Each campaign, each battle, is described with an unusual care for accuracy. Through many examples of letters, from Napoleon's correspondence in which he gives precise orders for the day-to-day running of his Empire, to those sent by soldiers in the field, the author lets us see the often very raw reality of what a battle was like in the Napoleonic Era.
All the armies in which he served or he commanded have been put into their historical context, illustrated with documents and letters from soldiers, with their contents, often full of historical information or anecdotes, which help us to understand the life of soldiers, their hopes and their fears.
However, it is not a mere work on history: it is a landmark study of all the postmarks used during the different campaigns over the years of the Consulat and the Empire. Using many tables, all the postmarks are listed, each with it's period of use.
In addition, some themes closely linked to the armies are covered such as prisoners of war, the conquered departments resulting from military victories, letters of "cantinières" as well as other topics.
Through this captivating story we see how a single man can, in a relatively short period in history, lead an entire population to the glory of ruling a large part of Europe, subsequently dragging it to it downfall.
CONTENTS
* Administrative, Military, and other Organisations
* From Captain Buonaparte to General Bonaparte (13 July 1792 to 9 November 1799)
* The Consulate (9 November 1799 - 18 May 1804)
* The Empire (18 May 1804 - 4 April 1814)
* Prisoners of war
* The Coalitions
* The Armies
* Civil Office Postmarks
General Bibliography - Historical
General Bibliography - Philatelic
Eric Scherer
THE STRUGGLE FOR DOMINANCE ON THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
History and Postal History
1494-1819
History and Postal History
1494-1819
LA LUTTE DES POUVOIRS COLONIAUX EN INDE
Histoire et histoire postale
1494-1819
Histoire et histoire postale
1494-1819
Published on the occasion of Monacophil 2022
272 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - cloth-bound with gold inscriptions and colour cover - printed 2022
English and French text
It focuses on the pre-philatelic history of India while comprising a comprehensive view on historical developments of all the European nations and the interacion among them. It closely ties history with postal history.
Starting with the battle of Plassey in 1757 and settling with the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the subsequent peace negotiations until around 1819, India transitioned from a multipower country to one British Rule.
The British very early realized that putting up a reliable postal system was a significant means of consolidating power; they were successful in establishing post offices and postal services even in the settlements of other European nations.
The year 1819 marks the end of this period of struggle and sees Britain as the leading power in India as well as the sole provider of domestic postal services even on the territory of the remaining European powers, which were left with no political or economic importance.
Many significant philatelic objects were gathered from collectors all around the world. Among them there are several items from archives which have never been shown before. A strong focus was given to describe them correctly and in their historical context.
CONTENTS
Introduction and acknowledgements
Some thoughts on researching the early Indian postal history
Note on Geographical indications and place names
* The Route to India
* Early postal systems in India and Dawk Runners in India
* Development of European Settlements
- The Portuguese State in India 1505-1961
- The Dutch East India Company and its presence on the Indian Subcontinent 1605-1825
- The British in India 1612-1947
- Tranquebar and the Danish settlements in India 1620-1845
- The French in India 1668-1954
- The Belgians and Austrians in India 1722-1731 and 1775-1785
* European war and peace and their effect on India in the 18th Century
* Establishment of regular postal services by the British 1766-1819
* Epilogue
* Appendix
- Timeline
- Bibliography
- Contributors and sources
- Additional Acknowledgements
LA POSTA DELLE MISSIONI MILITARI ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO
DAL 1950 AL 2022
Classificazione e valutazione
DAL 1950 AL 2022
Classificazione e valutazione
596 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
VALUATIONS IN EURO
Italian text
FROM 1950 TO 2022
Classification and evaluation
Published by CIFO - Association of Italian collectors of ordinary postage stamps
New edition that resumes and updates the catalogue on military missions abroad of 2013, starting from the n.1 Afis in Somalia of 1950, up to n.164 of Air Policing for the surveillance of the NATO airspace of June 2022.
One of the novelties is the introduction of three further groupings of missions, with unusual and interesting material: the Hippocampus operations, for the repatriation of compatriots, the Humanitarian missions and the Scientific ones.
The introduction illustrates the various types of postal historical material that can be collected, also taking into consideration mail that has not travelled, that which has been created retrospectively, that which is almost industrially produced in equal multiples and also other types of objects connected with mail, such as, for example, commemorative postcards, philatelic souvenirs, documents,...
The work develops by listing the missions in chronological order with explanatory cards containing the technical data and showing correspondence, postcards, newspapers, flyers, the most significant postal and administrative postmarks, the official gullers when there is a dedicated Military Post Office.
It is the result of a group work: Ruben Berta, Roberto Cruciani, Claudio Ernesto Manzati, Domenico Matera, Ernesto Vassallo.
Valter Astolfi
POSTA ITALIANA IN ESTREMO ORIENTE
storie di posta, di soldati italiani in Cina, Siberia e Giappone
durante il Regno d'Italia
storie di posta, di soldati italiani in Cina, Siberia e Giappone
durante il Regno d'Italia
432 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
POINT VALUATIONS WITH RANGE IN EURO
The work is meant to illustrate the postal implications of the Italian military presence in the Far East, from 1861 to 1947 (from the unification of Italy until the return to China of the Tientsin Concession, following the Paris peace treaty).
The aim is to tell the story of the Italian presence that derives from the use of soldiers and/or civilians and which is accompanied by postal aspects of interest for the purposes of postal history.
The book is developed in seven parts:
- the years from 1861 to 1899: the first institutional contracts with China, with the sending of the R.N. "Magenta" (1866), up to the issue of San Mun Bay;
- the years from 1900 to 1905: the "Boxer" war (1900), with the sending of an Expeditionary Corps, the establishment of a Royal Navy Detachment in China and the creation of an Italian territorial Concession in Tientsin;
- the years from 1906 to 1914: the period preceding the outbreak of the First World War, with the Beijing-Paris car raid and the urban development of the Italian Concession of Tientsin;
- the years from 1915 to 1919: the First World War, with the story of the "Unredeemed" (who arrived in Tientsin from prison camps in Russia) and the sending of an expeditionary force to the Far East (1918/19);
- the 1920s: from the establishment in China of a battalion of sailors of the "St. Marco", to the local establishment of river companies up to air raids from Italy to Japan;
- the 1930s: from attempts to penetrate China commercially (with specific missions by the fascist government) up to the sending of a Battalion of the "Grenadiers of Savoy" at the time of the Sino-Japanese war (1937). The birth of Manchukuo;
- the 1940s: from Italy's entry into the Second World War up to the armistice of 1943 and then up to the conclusion of the conflict, with the restitution of the Tientsin Concession to China, on the basis of the Paris peace treaty of 1947.
An extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
Riccardo Maini
CROCE ROSSA ITALIANA
Documenti e messaggi della Seconda guerra mondiale
Documenti e messaggi della Seconda guerra mondiale
50 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2023
Italian text
Documents and messages from the Second World War
This publication deals with the Italian Red Cross, with exclusive reference to models of duty-free postcards (including air mail) of/for prisoners of war and messages, which were used during the Second World War, without taking into consideration the documents issued by the various local committees.
Presented are the models of the prisoners, searches and connected services office (including those with reference to the Decree of the Duce of 23 July 1940-XVIII), for the ordinary and air mail services, the messages of the Eritrea Committee, of CRI International Committee, the requests of CRI to the International Committee of Geneva, the messages of the International Committee of Geneva.
In the documents reproduced, many front and back, the details that characterize them are highlighted.
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