160 pp. - b/w and colour ill. - 2nd ed. 2011
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

LAGERS OF LOSERS
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.

192 pp. - colour ill. - hardbound with colour cover - 1st ed. 2011
English text

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
Italian text

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.

264 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2015
Italian text

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.

156 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2022
Italian text

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.