Category: Italy

By Erich von Daniken

ISBN-10: 1601632835

ISBN-13: 9781601632838

"Erich boldly keeps to problem our realizing of history."

--Philip Coppens, writer, the traditional Alien Question

We reside in an age of knowledge. yet there are issues in our prehistory "about which we don't have the faintest idea," writes best-selling writer Erich von Däniken in his gripping new ebook, Remnants of the Gods. Stone constructions erected by means of grasp developers, mysterious underground complexes, geometrically aligned stone circles, the breathtaking pyramids of Egypt--who outfitted them? And, maybe extra importantly, the place did those developers receive such outstanding knowledge?

Erich von Däniken exhibits intimately how entire nations have been surveyed millions of years in the past. 1000s of Stone Age holy locations can be found at equivalent distances from each other, forming huge squares and triangles.

How used to be all of this attainable? vintage archaeology presents no solutions to those questions. Worse nonetheless, it does not even seem to be . Are all of us threatening to develop into "camp fans of disinterest," as Erich asks?

Featuring greater than a hundred and sixty colour pictures and illustrations, Erich unearths the secrets and techniques of "impossible structures" in Europe and the Mediterranean area, describes "crazy facts," and relentlessly exposes fake doctrines.

Remnants of the Gods will make even strident skeptics re-evaluate what they believe they comprehend of the earlier.

By Philip Haythornthwaite

ISBN-10: 1855322811

ISBN-13: 9781855322813

In January 1794 the French ‘Army of Italy’ was once commanded through basic Dumerbion and he said an exceptional debt to his 25-year-old commander of artillery – Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution had ended in significant adjustments within the army procedure, conscription created a countrywide military and new strategies and tasks allowed an officer of such promise as Napoleon to upward push fast in the course of the ranks.

By John Julius Norwich

ISBN-10: 0307427226

ISBN-13: 9780307427229

John Julius Norwich's A historical past of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" through none except Jan Morris. Now, in his moment e-book at the urban as soon as referred to as los angeles Serenissima, Norwich advances the tale during this dependent chronicle of 100 years of Venice's highs and lows, from its ignominious trap through Napoleon in 1797 to the sunrise of the 20 th century.

An compulsory cease at the Grand journey for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice limped into the nineteenth century--first less than the yoke of France, then as an outpost of the Austrian Hapsburgs, stripped of riches but indelibly the main ravishing urban in Italy. even if subsumed right into a unified Italy in 1866, it remained a magnet for aesthetes of all stripes--subject or atmosphere of books by means of Ruskin and James, a muse to poets and musicians, in its method the main gracious courtesan of all eu towns. through refracting pictures of Venice during the visits of such extravagant (and occasionally debauched) artists as Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, and the inimitable Baron Corvo, Norwich conjures visions of paradise on a lagoon, as enduring as brick and as elusive because the tides.

By Curzio Malaparte

ISBN-10: 1590171470

ISBN-13: 9781590171479

Curzio Malaparte used to be a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a style for probability and excessive dwelling. despatched by means of an Italian paper in the course of international conflict II to hide the combating at the japanese entrance, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying document from the abyss, which grew to become a world bestseller while it was once released after the conflict. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner events with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging our bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints an image of humanity at its such a lot depraved.

Kaputt is an insider's dispatch from the area of the enemy that's as hypnotically attention-grabbing because it is disturbing.

By Barbara M. Kreutz

ISBN-10: 0812215877

ISBN-13: 9780812215878

Histories of medieval Europe have in most cases overlooked southern Italy, having a look south merely within the Norman interval. but Southern Italy within the 9th and 10th centuries used to be a posh and colourful international that merits to be higher understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the 1st sleek learn in English of the land, political buildings, and cultures of southern Italy within the centuries prior to the Norman conquests. This was once a pan-Meditteranean society, the place the Roman prior and Lombard-Germanic tradition met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, making a wealthy and weird mix.

By Nicola Pignato, Andrew Probert, Richard Hudson, Don Greer

ISBN-10: 0897474260

ISBN-13: 9780897474269

The Royal Italian Army's 'M' sequence tanks begun with the Fiat-Ansaldo M11-39 in 1939 and persevered with the M13-40, M14-41 and the M15-42. Medium tanks served on all Italian fronts in the course of WWII. even if out played by way of such a lot Allied armored autos, those tanks ' self-propelled weapons have been Italy's armored safety all through WWII, a hundred photographs, over 60 line drawings, three complete colour hide work, eight colour profiles, 50 pages

By Andrew Brookes

By Liu

ISBN-10: 9004177744

ISBN-13: 9789004177741

In accordance with an intensive exam of the epigraphic, felony, and literary assets at the collegia centonariorum, this quantity deals a brand new realizing in their origins, capabilities, firms, and social and felony prestige within the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to fourth century advert.

By Shaw, C.

ISBN-10: 900415311X

ISBN-13: 9789004153110

An exam of the character of well known executive and oligarchy in cities and towns all through Renaissance Italy, and of the explanations why broadly-based civic governments have been wasting floor.

By Alan Richard Balboni

ISBN-10: 0874176816

ISBN-13: 9780874176810

ISBN-10: 0874177073

ISBN-13: 9780874177077

Whilst past the Mafia first seemed in 1996, it was once hailed as an important contribution to the heritage of Las Vegas and of ethnic minorities in the US. writer Alan Balboni strains the background of Italians in Las Vegas from the founding of town in 1905, recording their actions within the fledgling payment. As Las Vegas grew, Italian american citizens participated in each point of the city’s society and financial system, together with building, retail institutions, inns, and—after the statewide legalization of playing in 1931—the on line casino undefined. Basing his learn on good over 100 interviews, in addition to the files of Italian American agencies, public companies, and different resources, Balboni has produced a gleaming, farsighted, and punctiliously documented account of the heritage of 1 of Las Vegas’s so much innovative and efficient ethnic minorities. This new paperback version contains an afterword by way of the writer that brings the tale of Las Vegas’s Italian americans as much as the current.