University Press of America
Pages: 370
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-2496-1 • Paperback • February 2003 • $99.99 • (£77.00)
Patrick Gallo is Adjunct Professor of Political Science, New York University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 One Bullet...Just One
Chapter 3 From that Moment I Felt Jewish
Chapter 4 Destiny Will Always Bind Us
Chapter 5 A Cycle that is Closed
Chapter 6 To Summon the Italian People to Resistance
Chapter 7 Each One of Us Found Our Patriotism Again
Chapter 8 Only God Can Bend the Fascist Will, Men and Things Never
Chapter 9 The Italian People Rebelled
Chapter 10 Even More Ferocious in Their Repression
Chapter 11 We Will Strike Them in Their Men
Chapter 12 Under the Pounding Heels
Chapter 13 Who Falls for Their Country Lives in Eternity
Chapter 14 So Cowardly a Reprisal
Chapter 15 I Will Protect Any Commander
Chapter 16 A Warning for the Coming Generations
Chapter 17 Notes
Chapter 18 Index
Chapter 19 About the Author
...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
'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
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
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
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
...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
'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
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