John Dickie

Broschiertes Buch

Cosa Nostra

The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia

Beschreibung

The truth is more chilling than fiction: COSA NOSTRA tells, for the first time, the true history of the Sicilian mafia - now revised and updated to include recent events.

Autor

John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London. Hodder & Stoughton published his Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia in 2004, to ecstatic reviews. It became an international bestseller, with over 20 translations, and won the CWA Dagger Award for Non-fiction that year. Since then he has published Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food (2007) - now a six-part TV series for HIstory Channel Italia and other networks worldwide. His most recent books are Mafia Brotherhoods (2011) and Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse (2013). In 2005 the President of the Italian Republic appointed him a Commendatore dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
• Upd. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780340935262
• ISBN-10: 034093526X
• Artikelnr.: 22501919

Rezensionen

I couldn't put it down. His archival sleuthing is yoked to his powerful, often coruscating storytelling to create a chilling account of the mafia's sinister, horrific reality. John Guy, The Sunday Times