9780907871484
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Eland Publishing
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Italy
Mafia
Norman Lewis
Organised Crime
Post-WW2 Italy
Sicily
The Honoured Society
Travel Literature
Travel Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780907871484
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2003
- Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. - reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church - and how this was only possible with the help of the American army, who gave the Mafia, by then all but destroyed by the Fascist government, the kiss of life when they occupied the island in 1943 - the perfect companion for any traveller to Sicily, and a gripping armchair read
Norman Lewis is England's finest, living travel writer. He has written a dozen travel books, including such masterpieces as Naples'44, Golden Earth and A Dragon Apparent. He has also written thirteen novels. Lewis regards his life's major achievement to be the reaction to an article written by him entitled Genocide in Brazil, published in 1968. This led to a change in Brazilian law relating to the treatment of Indians, and to the formation of Survival International, which campaigns for the rights of indigenous peoples.
