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Cod. 3032E
EUR 25,00
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EUR 21,25

HISTORY BOOK



Luigi Emilio Longo
SME - IMMAGINI DELLA SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE
LA CAMPAGNA DI TUNISIA
(1942-1943)

228 pp. - over 300 b/w photos - hardbound with cover - printed 2007
Italian text
Published by the Italian Army General Staff, History Archives

IMAGES OF WORLD WAR II
THE CAMPAIGN OF TUNISIA
(1942-1943)

The volume includes over 300 pictures about the Campaign battled in Tunisia by the Italian Army between November 1942 and May 1943, divided into two main subjects; the operative and the logistic ones. The collection of the iconographic material is introduced by a historical synthesis of the main events occurred on the Tunisian Front, considered as the outpost of Europe, whose defence represented a strategic crux to avoid the air and sea superiority of the Allies.
Cod. 3037E
EUR 20,66
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EUR 17,56

HISTORY BOOK



Mario Montanari
SME - LE OPERAZIONI IN AFRICA SETTENTRIONALE
VOL. IV - ENFIDAVILLE
(novembre 1942 - maggio 1943)

820 pp. - 90 b/w sketches and 37 b/w plates - hardbound - reprint 2005 of the 1st ed. 1993
Italian text
Published by the Italian Army General Staff, History Archives

THE OPEARTIONS IN NORTH AFRICA
VOL. IV - ENFIDAVILLE
(November 1942-May 1943)

With this volume, that follows the three previously published about "Sidi El Barrani", "Tobruk" and "El Alamein", the History Bureau has finished the re-elaborated version of the eight monographs, published immediately after war, relevant to the operations led by the Italian Army in North Africa from June 1940 to May 1943. Like the previous ones, also this work is not restricted to a technical and operative analysis of the operations - in this case related to the Tunisian theatre - but it extends the investigation field to the political-military aspects of both parts.
Cod. 3073E
EUR 36,00
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EUR 30,60

HISTORY BOOK



Ubaldini Ubaldino Mori
I SOMMERGIBILI NEGLI OCEANI

390 pp. - ill. and 33 diagrams in b/w - revised by Aldo Cocchia - hardbound woth cover - reprint 2002 of the 3rd ed. 1976
Italian text
Published by the Italian Navy General Staff, History Archives - Series: The Italian Navy in WWII

SUBMARINES IN THE OCEANS

The events of the 32 oceanic vessels of Betasom, been commissioned between 1925 and 1943, the Italian naval base in Bordeaux and the foundering of a good 569,000 gross tonnage of enemy mercantile craft, in the documents of the Italian Navy Archives and in those of the British and American History Archives.
Cod. 3077E
EUR 30,00
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EUR 25,50

HISTORY BOOK



Pier Filippo Lupinacci
ATTIVITÀ IN MAR NERO E LAGO LADOGA

revised and updated by Giuliano Manzari e Massimo Paolucci
212 pp. - b/w ill. and diagrams - hardbound with cover - printed 2003 (4th edition)
Italian text
Published by the Italian Navy General Staff, History Archives - Series: The Italian Navy in WWII

ACTIVITY IN THE BLACK SEA AND IN LAKE LADOGA

The activity of the flotilla of "pocket submarines" and of the M.A.S. squadrons, torpedo speedboats and explosive skiffs that operated in the Black Sea and in Lake Ladoga. Their fast transport by road or railroad up to Konstanz and then to Crimea. The success obtained against the Soviet surface vehicles and submarines.
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)

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 CORPSE
MUSSOLINI 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
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".
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

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.
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

462 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2013
Italian text

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.
Cod. 2563E
EUR 20,00

The author will donate his profits to charity.



Vitoronzo Pastore
SENTIERI DEL NON RITORNO
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

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.

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