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Arrigo Petacco (7 August 1929 – 3 April 2018) was an Italian writer, historian and journalist.


Life and activities

Petacco was special envoy, editor-in-chief and executive director of ''
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'' and ''La Storia Illustrata'', and author of the homonymous monthly television program on the
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.from Arrigo Petacco'
official site
He began his journalistic career at ''Il Lavoro'', a newspaper published in
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, directed by
Sandro Pertini Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini (; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985. Early life Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a wealthy landown ...
. Prolific historical writer, experienced journalist, he wrote several film plots and made numerous television programs, especially for RAI, the Italian main
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. In his career as a journalist has interviewed some of the protagonists of the Second World War. In 1957, Petacco married Lucetta De Martino with whom he had two daughters: Monica, who lives in
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, and Carlotta, living in
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. He is widowed since 1989. Since then he lives alone in
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, near
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. In 1983, he won the Saint Vincent award for journalism and in 2006 received the Capo d'Orlando prize for journalism. Petacco died on 3 April 2018 of
liver cancer Liver cancer (also known as hepatic cancer, primary hepatic cancer, or primary hepatic malignancy) is cancer that starts in the liver. Liver cancer can be primary (starts in liver) or secondary (meaning cancer which has spread from elsewhere to th ...
at the age of 88.


Works


"A tragedy revealed"

Petacco's masterwork is the historical essay ''L'esodo: la tragedia negata d'Istria, Dalmazia e Venezia Giulia 1942–1956'' published in 1999 and later translated in several languages. The English edition was published in 2005 under the title ''A tragedy revealed: the story of the Italian population of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1942–1956'',Arrigo Petacco,
A tragedy revealed: the story of the Italian population of Istria, Dalmatia, and Venezia Giulia, 1942–1956
', Italian studies, University of Toronto Press, 2005, Toronto,
and had immediately a great success. Exposing in the book one of the great atrocities of our time, Petacco gives voice in a very touching way to the suffering of a people who were rejected and denied by their own country. Those who survived are validated by the historical and personal accounts presented in the book.


Publications

* La morte cammina con la sposa. (Collezione: I romanzi della notte). Rome, Boselli, 1958. * L'anarchico che venne dall'America. Storia di Gaetano Bresci e del complotto per uccidere Umberto I. Milan, Mondadori, 1969. * La seconda guerra mondiale. 9 volumi. Rome, Armando Curcio Editor, 1979. * Joe Petrosino. Milan, Mondadori, 1972. * Dal Gran Consiglio al Gran Sasso: una storia da rifare. Milan, Rizzoli, 1973 (coautore Sergio Zavoli). * Il prefetto di ferro. L'uomo di Mussolini che mise in ginocchio la mafia. Milan, Mondadori, 1975. * Le battaglie navali del Mediterraneo nella Seconda guerra mondiale Milan, Mondadori, 1976. * Riservato per il Duce. Milan, Mondadori 1979. * Storia del Fascismo. 6 volumi. Rome, Armando Curcio Editore, 1981. * Pavolini: l'ultima raffica di Salò. Milan, Mondadori, 1982. * I grandi enigmi della storia. (6 voll.) Novara, DeAgostini, 1984. * Come eravamo negli anni di guerra? (1940–1945). Novara, DeAgostini, 1984. * Dear Benito, Caro Winston. Milan, Mondadori, 1985. * I ragazzi del '44. Milan, Mondadori, 1987. * Storia bugiarda. Bari, Laterza, 1989. * W Gesu W Maria W l'Italia – Ugo Bassi, il cappellano di Garibaldi. Rome, Nuove edizioni del gallo, 1990. * 1940: giorno per giorno attraverso i bollettini del Comando supremo. Milano, Leonardo, 1990. . * 1941: giorno per giorno attraverso i bollettini del Comando supremo. Milano, Leonardo, 1990. . * 1942: giorno per giorno attraverso i bollettini del Comando supremo. Milano, Leonardo, 1991. . * 1943: giorno per giorno attraverso i bollettini del Comando supremo. Milan, Leonardo, 1993. * ''La regina del Sud''. Milano, Mondadori, 1992. * ''La principessa del nord. La misteriosa vita della dama del Risorgimento: Cristina di Belgioioso.'' Milano, Mondadori, 1993. * ''La signora della Vandea. Un'italiana alla conquista del trono di Francia.'' Milan, Modadori, 1994. *'' Le battaglie navali del Mediterraneo nella seconda guerra mondiale.'' Milan, Mondadori, 1995. * ''La nostra guerra 1940–1945. L'avventura bellica tra bugie e verità.'' Milan, Mondadori, 1995. * ''Il comunista in camicia nera: Nicola Bombacci, tra Lenin e Mussolini.'' Milan, Mondadori, 1996. * ''Regina. La vita e i segreti di Maria José.'' Milan, Mondadori, 1997. * ''L'archivio segreto di Mussolini''. Milan, Mondadori, 1997 * ''L'armata scomparsa: l'avventura degli italiani in Russia''. Milan, Mondadori, 1998. * ''Il superfascista. Vita e morte di Alessandro Pavolini''. Milan, Mondadori, 1998. * ''L'esodo: la tragedia negata degli italiani d'Istria, Dalmazia e Venezia Giulia''. Milano, Mondadori, 1999. * ''L'anarchico che venne dall'America''. (nuova edizione), Milano, Mondadori, 2000. * ''L'Amante dell'imperatore''. Milano, Mondadori, 2000 * ''Joe Petrosino''. Milano, Mondadori, 2001. * ''Ammazzate quel fascista! Vita intrepida di Ettore Muti''. Milan, Mondadori, 2002. * ''Faccetta nera: storia della conquista dell'impero''. Milan, Mondadori, 2003. * ''Il Cristo dell'Amiata''. Milan, Mondadori, 2003. * ''L'uomo della provvidenza''. Milan, Mondadori, 2004. * ''La croce e la mezzaluna: Lepanto 7 ottobre 1571''. Milan, Mondadori, 2005. * ''Viva la muerte!: mito e realta della guerra civile spagnola, 1936–39''. Milan, Mondadori, 2006. * ''L'ultima crociata: quando gli ottomani arrivarono alle porte dell'Europa''. Milan, Mondadori, 2007. * ''La scelta: l'invenzione della Repubblica Italiana''. Roma, Armando Curcio, 2008. * ''La strana guerra, 1939–1940: quando Hitler e Stalin erano alleati e Mussolini stava a guardare''. Milan, Mondadori,2008. * ''Il regno del Nord, 1859: il sogno di Cavour infranto da Garibaldi''. Milano, Mondadori, 2009. * ''La Resistenza tricolore''. Milano, Mondadori, 2010 (co-author Giancarlo Mazzuca).


Films

*'' La battaglia d'Inghilterra'' *'' L'assedio di Malta'' *'' La fine del dirigibile'' *'' La battaglia del Rio de la Plata ''(Graf Spee) *'' Lo sbarco in Normandia'' *'' Lo sbarco di Salerno'' *'' La battaglia dell'Atlantico'' *'' La battaglia di Mosca'' *'' La vera storia di Rommel'' *'' La vera storia di Eddie Chapman'' *'' La fine del Thresher'' *'' La spia di Pearl Harbor'' *'' La battaglia del Piave'' *'' Vittorio Veneto'' *'' L'impresa di Premuda'' * ''L'ultima trincea'' * ''Ustascia'' * ''Dal Gran Consiglio al Gran Sasso'' (in collaboration with
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) * ''I due Yemen'' * ''I figli di Lawrence'' * ''1943, l'anno della svolta''


Notes


See also

* Istrian-Dalmatian exodus *
Sandro Pertini Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini (; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985. Early life Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a wealthy landown ...
* Premio Saint-Vincent per il giornalismo {{DEFAULTSORT:Petacco, Arrigo 1929 births 2018 deaths People from the Province of La Spezia 20th-century Italian historians Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian male writers Historians of World War II Deaths from liver cancer 21st-century Italian historians