When it comes to history, Spike Lee isn’t one to duck a fight. Last spring the New York filmmaker set off a nasty public showdown with Clint Eastwood, whom he criticized for not depicting ...

STAUNTON — "Imagine a Polish Jew, whose parents, siblings, and son have been murdered in the gas chambers of the Nazi death camps, commanding an Italian partisan unit," wrote Michael Berenbaum in the ...

Italy today celebrates the 80th anniversary of its liberation. After two-and-a-half years, Italian partisans got rid of both the Nazi German former ally that had occupied half the country and morally ...

Maria Levi did not carry a rifle. She carried pasta. After an Allied prisoner of war escaped from an Italian camp in September 1943, Levi waded barefoot across a river with a pot balanced on her head ...

Juan Masullo has received funding for this research from UNUWIDER and Leiden University. He is affiliated with the University of Milan. Across Europe, far-right movements are gaining ground. From the ...

PERRY — Author Suzanne Cope presents a thrilling perspective in the book, “Women of War.” The book details four women who were Italian assassins, spies and couriers fighting the Nazis.