Book Review: The Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War. Volume I, 1939–1941: Norway, the Mediterranean, and the “Bismarck.”

Within the wider attempt to transform Italian communities abroad into Fascist colonies, the Italian Fasci Abroad sought to build nationalist propaganda in the Mediterranean. The irredentist activities and the propaganda of the Fasci in Malta alarmed the British governors on the island, the British government and MI5. This article analyses the cultural conflict organised in Maltese schools, bookshops and universities by the Italian nationalists against the British protectorate–a conflict the British suspected could be followed by military activity, in particular when Italy began building its empire in Ethiopia. The nationalist offensive was supported in the 1920s and, more vigorously, in the 1930s by the Fasci, the Italian consulate on the island and, ultimately, the Italian government. Not even the Second World War and the bombing of Malta by the Italian air force concluded the conflict between Italian and British imperialism on the island.

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‘The founders of a European era’? The Fascist and Falangist plans for Italy and Spain in the new Nazi order

Modern Italy ◽

10.1017/mit.2019.15 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 317-330

Author(s):

Giorgia Priorelli

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Area ◽

Second World War ◽

Postwar Period ◽

World War ◽

Cultural Foundations ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Second World

At the dawn of the Second World War, the successes of the Axis seemed to herald the realisation of a new anti-Bolshevik and anti-democratic European order dominated by Nazi-fascist powers. Italian Fascists and Spanish Falangists enthusiastically welcomed plans for the ‘new civilisation’ in which they were determined to participate as protagonists. This article sheds light on the roles projected for the respective countries in the New European Order in the postwar period, according to the black and the blue shirts. It also investigates the ideological and cultural foundations of the Fascist and Falangist projects related to the new continental configuration, identifying similarities and differences between them. Considering the scarcity of comparative writings about fascist movements in the Mediterranean area, the present research fills a historiographic gap.

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Book Review: Selim Deringil, Turkish Foreign Pnlicy during the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, 238pp., £25.00)

Millennium Journal of International Studies ◽

10.1177/03058298900190010808 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 127-128

Author(s):

Mehmet Ugur

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Second World

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Donald John Wiseman 1918–2010

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 172, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, X ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197264904.003.0018 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

ALAN MILLARD

Keyword(s):

Near East ◽

British Museum ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Archaeological Work ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Second World ◽

Intelligence Officer

Donald Wiseman, a leading assyriologist, had a distinguished service in the RAF during the Second World War under Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park and later in the Mediterranean as Chief Intelligence Officer. After time working at the British Museum on thousands of cuneiform tablets and as a member of Mallowan's team excavating Nimrud, he took up the Chair of Assyriology at SOAS in 1961. Wiseman, who was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1969, worked to advance archaeological work in the Near East.

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