Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I: Prologue: the conquered territories. 1. Italo-German relations in Mediterranean Europe; 2. The New Mediterranean Order; 3. The discrepancy between Fascism's plans for domination and actual occupation; 4. Mussolini, the civil and military authorities and the coordination of occupation policies; 5. The conquerors; Part II: 6. Relations with the occupied countries; 7. Economic valorization and the exploitation of the occupied territories; 8. The forced Italianization of the new provinces; 9. Collaboration; 10. Repression; 11. Policy towards refugees and Jews; Epilogue; Appendices; Archival sources; Printed sources and bibliography.

Promotional Information

This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War.

About the Author

Davide Rodogno is Academic Fellow in the School of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Adrian Belton is a freelance translator specialising in the humanities and the social sciences.

Reviews

'Rodogno's book derives from deep digging in the hitherto almost inaccessible Italian army and foreign ministry files ... Rodogno now offers a rich and innovative analysis of the often radical implementation of fascist policy in the Balkans and southern France ... [he] offers a generally persuasive and sustained analysis of little-known, poorly understood, yet vitally important chapters in the history of Fascist Italy and of the war that it willed.' MacGregor Knox, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Journal of Modern History