The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.

No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs, a

For most of the population of Europe and East and Southeast Asia, the most persistent and significant aspect of their experience of the Second World War was tha

Proposes a new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War, placing Fascist Italy at centre stage.

“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . .