Experiencing war as the 'enemy other': Italian Scottish experience in World War II

摘要

Anti-Italian riots; wholesale internment of men and boys; hundreds drowned in the terrible tragedy of the Arandora Star, torpedoed with its crowds of deportees: these are the headline events associated with Italians in Britain in the Second World War in history and collective memory. Wendy Ugolini does not deny their significance but one aim of her book is to demonstrate that they were far from being the whole story and that many aspects of the Italian experience as 'the enemy other' have been side-lined.