Robert Katz's history of modern Italy
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The following essay by Robert Katz first appeared in the popular anthology What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, edited by Robert Cowley. The second in a best-selling series, the book, published in 2001, is collection of 25 essays on what has come to be called counterfactual history. The Time mag
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UNA POPOL AZIONE PAZZA DI GIOIA ACCOGLIE LA V ARMATA AMERICANA ROMA, 4 giugno - Le potenti colonne blindate dell'ultima divisione corazzata, che per tutto il giorno hanno calcato la Statale 7 e sbaragliato ogni tentativo dei crucchi di ritardare la nostra avanzata, sono state infine fermate per le strade di Roma dalla
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January 27th in Italy is “Remembrance Day” – “Il Giorno della Memoria.” People take pause to recall the wickedest sin of humankind, the Holocaust. As time passes, the act of remembrance grows more important than the act remembered. “When history is forgotten, history is repeated,” Italian Chief of State Ciampi said rec
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PREFACE: OPEN CITY To describe the emotions of the mind and the crowd of ideas that arise on entering this "mistress of the world" is impossible. All is confusion and agitation. The eye moves rapidly from side to side, eager to grasp every object, but continually diverted by some new scene; all is wonder. Washington Ir
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I giorni del complotto Per i sempre più in vista revisionisti della storia della repubblica italiana il compito numero uno è senza dubbio quello di partecipare alla proliferazione dei cosiddetti "misteri dItalia". A prescindere da quelli legittimi che nascono da questioni reali, molto più frequenti sono quelli ricavat
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The Unquiet American Graham Greene's memorable novel The Quiet American has been described by critic Michiko Kakutani as a tale of "idealism run amok, capitalistic greed sold as paternalistic benevolence, ignorance disguised as compassion." Oddly, only a few years separate the appearance of that American from the debut
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The OSS translation of the Möllhausen telegram as it appeared in a top-secret intelligence report to President Roosevelt (note distribution list upper right). The episode is recounted in The Battle for Rome , but in far greater detail in Katz's essay. . Close Window
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Con il passaggio degli anni l'atto di ricordare ha assunto un significato superiore all'atto ricordato. Di questo significato ha parlato recentemente il Presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. "La memoria dell'Olocausto", egli disse ricordando il rastrellamento degli ebrei nel Ghetto di Roma, "deve essere ten
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Something in the spring air drew my attention to the posters freshly papering the walls of Rome. They announced the 20th anniversary commemoration of the "Fosse Ardeatine." I was new to Rome and could make no sense of those two words, but they appeared again the next day in newspaper accounts of a wartime atrocity, the
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Days of Wrath: The Ordeal of Aldo Moro The Book, the Movie, and the Book About Both Available now at Amazon.com Days of Wrath: The Ordeal of Aldo Moro, The Kidnapping, The Execution, The Aftermath New York: Doubleday, 1980, London: Granada, 1980, Rome: ADN Kronos Libri, 1982 (Italian title: I giorni dell'ira, il caso M
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The Talented Doktor Dollmann German spy, conspirator, secret envoy to the Vatican and the Allies, SS Col. Eugen Dollmann remains a major source of our knowledge of many of WWIIs most dramatic moments. Wherever crisis struck, it seemed, somehow Dollmann was there or on his way, peering over the shoulder of history and
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Italy-watching is not a high priority of the American media. Take the New York Times. When not reporting about the pope, fashion and design from Armani to Zegna or the charms of bella Tuscany, the dispatches that make it to print in the newspaper of record are almost always about scandal, scam and inefficiency, with a
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Bush, Battle and Death in Rome "Wherever the troops entered, they were cheered, applauded and showered with blossoms. A rain of roses fell on men, guns, tanks and jeeps." So wrote Mother Mary St. Luke, an American nun living in Rome when U.S. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army entered the Eternal City on June 4th sixty ye
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The Man Who Killed Aldo Moro Spring is finally arriving in Italy. Alighting from the heavens with attitude (as if it were not insufferably late as always) its showy splendor of rebirth and renewal conquers all. It is a season, however, that harbors a far less comely season of its own, known as le ricorrenze, the recurr
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The Death of a Statesman: Aldo Moro and the Unspoken Terrorism Like the thrall of the Kennedy assassination in America, the Aldo Moro story has haunted Italy for decades. The differences between the two cases are fundamental, but on March 16, 1978, Rome was Dallas. Moro was a vigorous 61 years old, the most powerful po
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The past is not dead. It's not even past. – William Faulkner Robert Katz , who has lived in Italy for decades, has written more than one million words on Italian history. They have taken the form of books, essays and articles, feature films, documentaries, and television reportage –a work of independent investigative r
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DOCUMENTI Lo storico Robert Katz apre il suo archivio sui dossier dell' ex diplomatico Usa: da Mancini a Macaluso, da Zaccagnini a Pisanu La famiglia Moro e il ricatto Br Nei rapporti segreti dell' ambasciatore Gardner ipotizzati dubbi dei parenti sullo scambio Inviò il telegramma pochi minuti dopo l' agguato di via Fa
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