Italian Resistance

One of the enduring myths about World War Two is that only the Allies liberated occupied Europe. Led by radical left forces, the Resistance trod an uneasy line between fighting their enemies at home and maintaining their alliances abroad. Essential for courses on World War Two and European history, this book uses unpublished archival material and interviews with surviving partisans to tell an inspiring story of liberation.

Tom Behan is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Kent. His books include The Camorra (1996); The Long Awaited Moment: The Working Class and the Italian Communist Party in Milan, 1943-48 (1997); Dario Fo: Revolutionary Theatre (Pluto, 2000); See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime (2002); The Resistible Rise of Benito Mussolini (2003) and Defiance: The Untold Story of One Man Who Stood Up To The Sicilian Mafia (2007).