Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War by Lowe, Keith
Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War by Lowe, Keith

Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War

Award-winning author Keith Lowe's newest critical deep-dive into the history of Naples during WWII.Keith Lowe has chronicled...
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Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War by Lowe, Keith

Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War

$54.27
Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War by Lowe, Keith

Naples 1944: The Devil's Paradise at War

$54.27
Author: Keith Lowe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Award-winning author Keith Lowe's newest critical deep-dive into the history of Naples during WWII.

Keith Lowe has chronicled the end of WWII in Europe in his award-winning book Savage Continent and the war's aftermath in the sequel, The Fear and the Freedom. In Naples 1944, he brings readers another masterful chronicle of the terrible and often unexpected consequences of war. Even before the fall of Mussolini, Naples was a place of great contrasts filled with palaces and slums, beloved cuisine and widespread hunger. After the Allied liberation, these contrasts made the city instantly notorious. Compared to the starving population, Allied soldiers were staggeringly wealthy. For a packet of cigarettes, even the lowest ranks could buy themselves a watch, a new suit or a woman for the night. As the biggest port in Allied hands, Naples quickly became the center of Italy's black market and has remained so ever since. Within just a few months the Camorra began to re-establish itself. Behind the chaos and the corruption, there was always the threat of violence. Army guns were looted and traded. Gangs of street kids fought running battles with the military police. Public buildings, booby-trapped by departing Germans, began to explode, seemingly spontaneously.

Then in March 1944 - like an omen - Vesuvius erupted. Naples was the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. What they found there would set a template for the whole of the rest of Europe in the years to come. Keith Lowe's Naples 1944 is a page-turning book about a city on the brink of chaos and glimpse into the dark heart of postwar Italy.

Author: Keith Lowe
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 03/11/2025
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.52w x 1.53d
ISBN: 9781250235053


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/20/2025
Library Journal 02/01/2025 pg. 78
Booklist 02/07/2025

About the Author
KEITH LOWE is the author of the critically-acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg 1943, and Savage Continent, an international bestseller and the winner of both the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History (2013), and Italy's prestigious Cherasco History Prize (2015). He lectures on both sides of the Atlantic, appears on TV and radio in Europe and the US, and writes for a variety of magazines and newspapers around the world. He lives in north London with his wife and children.
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