The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945

‘An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light’ Sunday TimesItaly emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people claimed had ceased to exist. And yet, as rural society disappeared almost overnight, by the 1960s, it could boast the fastest—growing economy in the world. In The Archipelago, historian John Foot chronicles Italy’s tumultuous history from the...