University Press of America For Love and Country: The Italian Resistance

During World War II resistance movements arose in all countries occupied by fascist and Nazi forces. Many people are startled to learn that there was a resistance movement in Italy. Most accounts by American scholars concentrate on the resistance in Central and Northern Italy and summarily dismiss the South. For Love and Country has as it's focus the resistance movement in Lazio and in particular Rome. Review 'For Love and Country: The Italian Resistance' is a compelling and thorough look at one of the strongest and most successful of mass resistance movements.--Fred L. Gardaphe "Fra Noi " ...Gallo has done an admirable job of synthesizing a vast and contentious body of scholarship and obviously has a deep admiration and respect for the anti-fascist Resistance, qualities that are today sometimes lacking in the scholarship.--Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University "H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online " This impressive non-fiction work tells the little-known story of the Italian resistance movement during World War II with particular focus on partisan efforts in the Lazio region, including Rome, from September 1943 to June 1944.--Italian American Those interested in the literature of World War II should avail themselves of Patrick Gallo's 'For Love and Country: The Italian Resistance'...Readers will find Gallo's book laden with narrative detail and first person accounts.--Primo ...a useful narrative account of the resistance movement in Italy in the final stages of the second world war...Gallo has skillfully exploited a large number of secondary sources in various languages.--Association Of Contemporary Church Historians Newsletter ?Gallo has done an admirable job of synthesizing a vast and contentious body of scholarship and obviously has a deep admiration and respect for the anti-fascist Resistance, qualities that are today sometimes lacking in the scholarship.--Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University "H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online " Patrick Gallo's 'For Love and Country: The Italian Resistance' is an enormously impressive contribution to the literature of World War II and indispensable reading for the general reader as well as the specialist.--Paul Paolicelli "Italian Tribune " About the Author Patrick Gallo is Adjunct Professor of Political Science, New York University.