Mark Gilbert

Praise for Italy Reborn

In this wise and penetrating book, Mark Gilbert demolishes the accepted view of postwar Italy as perpetually teetering on the edge of disaster and shows rather how it moved from the catastrophes of fascism and abjec ...

Margaret MacMillan, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford

Writing with great flair, Gilbert tells the epic tale of Italy’s emergence from its darkest days under Fascism to its postwar democratic success. There is no better way to understand where Italy has come from ...

David I. Kertzer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini

This is an important book that, for the first time in the English language, provides a thoroughly researched and balanced overview of Italy’s transition from fascism to democracy. Well written, rigorous and en ...

Elena Aga Rossi, Professor of Contemporary History, Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome; author of Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins of the Cold War

In this wise and penetrating book, Mark Gilbert demolishes the accepted view of postwar Italy as perpetually teetering on the edge of disaster and shows rather how it moved from the catastrophes of fascism and abjec ...

Margaret MacMillan, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford

Writing with great flair, Gilbert tells the epic tale of Italy’s emergence from its darkest days under Fascism to its postwar democratic success. There is no better way to understand where Italy has come from ...

David I. Kertzer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini

This is an important book that, for the first time in the English language, provides a thoroughly researched and balanced overview of Italy’s transition from fascism to democracy. Well written, rigorous and en ...

Elena Aga Rossi, Professor of Contemporary History, Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome; author of Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins of the Cold War

In this wise and penetrating book, Mark Gilbert demolishes the accepted view of postwar Italy as perpetually teetering on the edge of disaster and shows rather how it moved from the catastrophes of fascism and abjec ...

Margaret MacMillan, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford

Writing with great flair, Gilbert tells the epic tale of Italy’s emergence from its darkest days under Fascism to its postwar democratic success. There is no better way to understand where Italy has come from ...

David I. Kertzer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini

This is an important book that, for the first time in the English language, provides a thoroughly researched and balanced overview of Italy’s transition from fascism to democracy. Well written, rigorous and en ...

Elena Aga Rossi, Professor of Contemporary History, Scuola Superiore di Pubblica Amministrazione in Rome; author of Stalin and Togliatti: Italy and the Origins of the Cold War