Aristide e Maria Calderini
Casa Editrice Ceschina

Jacques Soustelle
Rusconi

Konrad Adenauer
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Amato Gallo
Federazione dei fasci di combattimento

Renzo Carmignani
Editrice Giardini

Max David
Bietti

Giovanni Comisso
Edizioni del Gazzettino

Bernard Berenson, Clotilde Marghieri
Rusconi Libri

Nizar Sassi
Einaudi

Lione, giugno 2001. Nizar Sassi è un ragazzo come tanti altri, di una famiglia tunisina ben inserita nel tessuto sociale francese. La politica e la religione, come del resto la scuola, a Nizar non interessano granché e di Al Qaeda o Bin Laden non ha mai sentito parlare. Ma una passione vera il ragazzo ce l'ha: sono le armi. Così, malauguratamente, si lascia convincere da qualcuno a seguire un corso di addestramento e, mentendo alla famiglia, vola verso il Pakistan. L'11 Settembre, e quello che nelle settimane successive si scatena, sorprendono Nizar nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato. Il Pakistan chiude le frontiere e Nizar viene venduto alla Cia e spedito a Guantanamo...

Italo Alighiero Chiusano
Rusconi

Flavio Russo, Feruccio Russo
Rivista Marittima

Antonio Cestaro
Rotary Club - Cassa Rurale ed Artigiana

William H. McNeill
Giulio Einaudi editore

Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo
Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo

Angelo Gaccione
Viennepierre edizioni

William M. Johnston
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Cornelio Cesare Desinan
Circolo Culturale Menocchio

Francesco Fadini, Manlio Mazziotti di Celso
Lions Clubs Crema e Pandino Gera d'Adda Viscontea

Franco Micali Baratelli
Edizioni Mursia

Edward Crankshaw
Edizioni Librex

Mario Bussagli
Rusconi

Vincent P. O'Hara, W. David Dickson, Richard Worth
Naval Institute Press

An international team of naval historians and scholars has pooled their expertise for this definitive reference on how the great navies of World War II were organized and how they trained, operated, and fought. They provide a point-by-point evaluation on the inner workings of the navies of the United States, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and the Soviet Union. Each navy has its own chapter, which covers such key features as weaponry, training, logistics, and doctrine. In bringing together data buried in specialized works in various languages, the authors deliver a fresh, multinational view of the naval war.

Robin Pickering-Iazzi
University of Toronto Press

The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani, and Silvana La Spina, as well as famous witnesses such as Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, and Rita Atria who provide personal, often terrifying testimonies about their experiences with the Mafia. It is a historically diverse examination of criminal and outlaw institutions by some of the most significant figures in Italian literature.

These newly translated writings show the ways in which Italians perceived and wrote about the Mafia and crime from the 1880s to the 1990s. Among them are stories dealing with the important legends used by the Mafia as sources for their image and ideology, legends such as the brigand and the Blessed Paulists. Some of the fascinating themes discussed are connections between the Mafia, the State, and the Catholic Church; the Mafia and children; women and the Mafia; the Black Hand; and relations between the Mafia and the Allied Forces during the Second World War. Robin Pickering-Iazzi incorporates an invaluable introduction that charts key periods in the history of Italy and the Mafia, and profiles each of the authors in the collection, noting their major works in Italian as well as those available in English. These and other features make this text especially appropriate for courses in Italian studies.

Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature takes a unique and intriguing approach to the subject of the Mafia, and offers informed judgements about its historical impact on Italian society and culture.

Gian Alberto dell'Acqua
Banca Popolare di Milano