Giovanni Oliva (short Gianni, born in
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...
) is an Italian
historian
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and
politician
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.
Oliva specialises in
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
modern history, and in particular subjects related to the history of
Italy during World War II.
He has written books about the
Italian resistance movement,
Italian war crimes,
[Oliva, Gianni (2006]
''«Si ammazza troppo poco». I crimini di guerra italiani. 1940-43''
Mondadori, German and fascist war crimes in Italy during the 1943-1945 period, the
Italian Social Republic, the 1945 anti-fascist epuration, the
foibe massacres and the
Istrian–Dalmatian exodus
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.
Oliva has also been active in politics, and has held several public offices, first as a member of the
Italian Communist Party
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The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) ...
, then of the
Democratic Party of the Left
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.
Author
*1989 ''La Resistenza alle porte di Torino''
*1994 ''I vinti e i liberati'',
Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy.
History
The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 1 ...
, Milano
*1996 ''I 600 giorni di
Salò
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'', Giunti
*1997 ''La Repubblica di
Salò
Salò (; la, Salodium) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy (northern Italy) on the banks of Lake Garda, on which it has the longest promenade. The city was the seat of government of the Italian Socia ...
'', Giunti
*1998 ''I Savoia'', Mondadori, Milano
*1999 ''La resa dei conti'', Mondadori, Milano
*2000 ''
Umberto II
en, Albert Nicholas Thomas John Maria of Savoy
, house = Savoy
, father = Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
, mother = Princess Elena of Montenegro
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Racconigi, Piedmont, Kingdom of Italy
, d ...
'', Mondadori, Milano
*2001 ''Storia degli
Alpini'', Mondadori, Milano
*2002 ''
Foibe
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, Le stragi negate degli italiani della Venezia Giulia e dell'Istria'', Mondadori, Milano
*2002 ''Storia dei
Carabinieri
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'', Mondadori, Milano
*2003 ''Duchi d'
Aosta
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'', Mondadori, Milano
*2003 ''La Resistenza'', Giunti
*2004 ''Le tre italie del 1943'', Mondadori, Milano
*2005 ''Profughi'', Mondadori, Milano
*2006 ''«Si ammazza troppo poco».''
I crimini di guerra italiani (Italian war crimes) 1940-43, Mondadori, Milano
*2007 ''L'ombra nera- le stragi nazifasciste che non ricordiamo più'', Mondadori, Milano
*2009 ''Soldati e Ufficiali - L'esercito italiano dal Risorgimento a oggi'', Mondadori, Milano
*2011 ''Esuli. Dalle foibe ai campi profughi: la tragedia degli italiani di Istria, Fiume, Dalmazia'', Mondadori
*2011 ''Primavera 1945. Il sangue della guerra civile'', Giunti
*2012 ''Un regno che è stato grande. La storia negata dei Borboni di Napoli e Sicilia'', Mondadori, Milano
See also
*
Foibe massacres
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oliva, Gianni
1952 births
Living people
20th-century Italian historians
21st-century Italian historians
Writers from Turin