Giovanni Massimello: 6 books

The first volume of this series dealt with the initial 19 months of the air war over the Western Desert of North Africa. This volume picks up the story as the 8th Army, following its hard-fought success in Operation Crusader, was forced back to the Gazala area, roughly midway between the Cyrenaican/Tripolitanian...

The third volume in the epic military aviation series focuses on the Allied invasion of North Africa during World War II. This work of WWII history takes us to November 1942 to explain the background of the first major Anglo-American venture: Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa....

This first volume in the seminal series on World War II aerial combat, pilots, and tactics that “reads like an encyclopedia on the subject” (Portland Book Review). In the early days of World War II, both Allied and Axis powers extended the theater of war to North Africa, where hard-fought...

The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily...

«Non che l’uomo contemporaneo sia capace di maggiori malvagità dell’uomo antico o di quello primitivo – sostiene l’autore nello scritto Presente e futuro (1956). – Soltanto che egli possiede oggi mezzi incomparabilmente più potenti per affermare la sua cattiveria. Se la sua coscienza si...

Nel suo costante e attento interrogarsi sui fenomeni collettivi che hanno caratterizzato il Novecento cosi ricco di fermenti innovativi e di radicali rivolgimenti, Jung non mancò di portare la propria testimonianza di analista. Nel disagio della «civiltà in transizione» egli scorse un riflesso e...