Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han Kang, We Do Not Part. First published in 2021 and now translated into English, ...
Recent polls show Trump is viewed favorably by about half of all Americans. What will undercut this support is not what ...
An old adage held that “At least Mussolini made the trains run on time.” In other words, everyday convenience partially excused the authoritarian rule imposed by the Italian dictator a century ...
In the estimation of one gangland kingpin, the quality of new underworld recruits is simply “miserable.” Mafia bosses in ...
Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, ...
Trieste is a harbor city tucked into the northeastern corner of Italy, where hilly streets drop to piazzas along the Adriatic ...
Dreaming of sailing to the Greek Islands? Nic Compton narrates leg two of his odyssey from the UK to Greece starting at the ...
There is a famous George – Orwell – who fought in the Spanish Civil War, but there is another ‘forgotten’ combatant with connections a little closer to home. George Norman Rodney Drury ...
Hitler took control of the German government in 1933; Italian dictator Mussolini had ruled since 1922; Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists swelled with support. And in 1936, a coup led by ...
Benito Mussolini premier of Italy, representing King Victor Emmanuel III, and Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, representing Pope Pius XI, signed the historic documents precisely ...