The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them. It looks at the Mafia in their homeland - how in attempting to preser
This biography, a reprint from 1988, recounts the life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, who wrote the novel The Leopard, which was published after his death in 1957. Gilmour draws from letters, diaries, and
At the beginning of WWII, Jewish-Hungarian novelist Arthur Koestler (author of Darkness at Noon was detained by French authorities and held for several months in a camp for resident aliens. In the mon
Somalia is one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fierce and independent-minded tribesmen. It was here that Gerald Hanley spent the Second World War, charged with preventi
