R.J.B. Bosworth is one of the world's leading historians of modern Italy. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Oxford and the author or editor of thirty-one books and many chapters and articles. He published his first book with Cambridge, Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War (1979), and was co-editor, with Joseph Maiolo, of the second volume of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015). His numerous prize-winning publications include the definitive biography of Mussolini in English.

'Good histories illuminate past epochs; the best histories do so by bringing individual lives into high relief. This wonderful book - part record of Fascist brutality, part remarkable history of resistance, and part love story - weaves the fate of Giovanni Amendola and his son Giorgio into the larger narrative of Fascist Italy and its aftermath.' Roberta Pergher, author of Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943

• List of figures; Preface; Introduction; Dramatis personae; 1. Political violence and the Amendolas, father and son; 2. The rise of Giovanni Amendola, 1882–1919: Man of liberal democratic ambition; 3. Giovanni Amendola: a condottiere of pure anti-fascism?; 4. Nelia Pavlova, Giovanni's last lover, convinced admirer and liberal democrat partisan; 5. Giorgio Amendola 1907–43: True love and totalitarianisms (Italian-style); 6. Giorgio Amendola and a national road to socialism and the end of history; Conclusion; Afterword; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

R.J.B. Bosworth is one of the world's leading historians of modern Italy. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Oxford and the author or editor of thirty-one books and many chapters and articles. He published his first book with Cambridge, Italy the Least of the Great Powers: Italian Foreign Policy Before the First World War (1979), and was co-editor, with Joseph Maiolo, of the second volume of The Cambridge History of the Second World War (2015). His numerous prize-winning publications include the definitive biography of Mussolini in English.

'Good histories illuminate past epochs; the best histories do so by bringing individual lives into high relief. This wonderful book - part record of Fascist brutality, part remarkable history of resistance, and part love story - weaves the fate of Giovanni Amendola and his son Giorgio into the larger narrative of Fascist Italy and its aftermath.' Roberta Pergher, author of Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943

• List of figures; Preface; Introduction; Dramatis personae; 1. Political violence and the Amendolas, father and son; 2. The rise of Giovanni Amendola, 1882–1919: Man of liberal democratic ambition; 3. Giovanni Amendola: a condottiere of pure anti-fascism?; 4. Nelia Pavlova, Giovanni's last lover, convinced admirer and liberal democrat partisan; 5. Giorgio Amendola 1907–43: True love and totalitarianisms (Italian-style); 6. Giorgio Amendola and a national road to socialism and the end of history; Conclusion; Afterword; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.