"The sun is blinding thirty-seven days of the campaign in Sicily, the dog days of July and August 1943, seems to dazzle even those who browse the beautiful photographs in this volume come from official or private archives. Look, the war appears to us still close as an unquestionable truth of our history. The dead bodies of soldiers, many Italians, Germans, allies, several helmets filled with tombs near the eyes and the memory of this micro-history, a recall against the larger story of Sicily and Italy, the story of the decisive conflict between the 1939 and 1945, between two absolutely opposite conceptions of the world. Ezio Costanzo, who worked on this book, with sweeping historical accuracy and says in an essential way the 1200 photographs that compose it. "
Lucio Villari (from the introduction to volume)
Ezio Costanzo
The War in Sicily
1943 Photographic History
Le Nove Muse Editrice
pp. 400, size 24x28 cm.
hardcover with dust jacket
1,200 photographs, documents and testimony.
