Slavery was the gold of Rome
03/12/2023
Luciano Canfora’s new book shows how war was used by ancient societies to secure resources.
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Interview with History: Henry Kissinger | by Oriana Fallaci
03/12/2023
Prepare to be captivated by the riveting 1972 exchange between Oriana Fallaci, the intrepid Italian journalist, and Henry Kissinger, the shrewd American statesman.
Se ne va Kissinger, il condor della realpolitik americana
01/12/2023
Un ricordo di Henry Kissinger attraverso alcune delle sue celebri frasi
Napoleone e Giuseppina: Una relazione tormentata
27/11/2023
Napoleone e Giuseppina si unirono in matrimonio quando lui era un semplice generale e lei una delle donne più affascinanti di Parigi. Il loro rapporto fu segnato da infedeltà reciproche, bugie, avidità, maltrattamenti e calcoli politici
Empress Joséphine. The Woman Who Stole Napoleon’s Heart
22/11/2023
The illicit love affairs of Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife Joséphine
The Last Journey of the Kennedys
22/11/2023
Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal account offers a poignant glimpse into the human side of history.
Ecco la cronaca della guerra dei cent’anni in poche parole
18/11/2023
Stralci dell’introduzione al libro di Marco Travaglio “Israele e i palestinesi in poche parole” (ed. Paper First)
Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas | Transcript
12/11/2023
Did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state?
Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for the Holy Land (2002) | Transcript
14/10/2023
This documentary outlines the ways in which British policies during the First World War have contributed to the instability of the Middle East region today. Through never/before/seen documents and photos, we look at the secret agenda of the British government in WWI and its unfortunate aftermath.
Storia d’Israele – Marco Travaglio
14/10/2023
Marco Travaglio racconta La storia di Israele nelle pagine del Fatto Quotidiano
The Elgin Marbles: A Tale of Art, History, and Controversy
29/06/2023
The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Sculptures, have been the subject of a long-standing international controversy.
A Tale of Love, Ambition, and Power: The Complicated Saga of Napoleon and Joséphine
29/11/2022
Napoleon and Joséphine’s relationship was defined by mutual unfaithfulness, deception, avarice, mistreatment, and strategic political maneuvering.
Giordano Bruno | di Indro Montanelli
22/10/2022
Bruno fu certamente una vittima della Controriforma, ma non un gladiatore del libero pensiero. Gliene mancò l’impegno morale, il vigore e l’ascesi. Bruno era soltanto un anticlericale.
Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941-1945. A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres
01/02/2021
One of the most disastrous results of the First World War was the disintegration of that liberal and tolerant spirit which civilized nations of the twentieth century were supposed to have acquired.
25 Luglio 1943: La fine del Duce
28/08/2020
Nel luglio 1943 la caduta di Mussolini e il crollo del regime che aveva tenuto in pugno l’Italia per 21 anni rappresentarono per molti italiani la fine di un incubo. Per altri, cresciuti nel mito dell’Impero e del «genio italico», fu una tragedia.
Croatia, 1941-1945: The Road to a Forgotten Genocide
01/02/2020
The greatest genocide during World War II, in proportion to a nation’s population, took place, not in Nazi Germany but in the Nazi-created puppet state of Croatia. There, in the years 1941-1945, some 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Gypsies— men, women and children—perished in a gigantic holocaust.
The End of History
20/10/2019
by Lynne V. Cheney Imagine an outline for the teaching of American history in which George Washington makes only a fleeting appearance and is never
Khomeini’s Iran
13/10/2019
by Eric Rouleau From the very beginning of the Iranian Revolution, the West—and particularly the United States—seems to have been struck by a peculiar sort
Israel’s secret team that empties state archives
18/08/2019
The ghost of Nakba. The Malmab, a department in the Israeli Defense Ministry, has been hiding evidence of Palestinian expulsion for years. The aim: to undermine the credibility of historical research through the disappearance of declassified documents
WWI AMPUTEE FITTED WITH A SHOVEL BELT
27/07/2019
Some 8.5 million French were mobilized to fight in World War I. Following the conflict, the wounded were mobilized to work. Amputees like this man fitted with a shovel belt were trained to compensate for their lost limbs.
Tiananmen, the Chinese leaders said: “Let’s kill those who must be killed”
02/06/2019
Thirty years after the Tiananmen massacre, a book reveals the transcripts of the speeches of party leaders before the military intervention on the protesters: “We all agree”