A Roman Holiday? African Americans and Italians in the Second World War.
This article attempts to explain the positive reception of Black troops in Europe by focusing on the relatively underexplored case of the Italian campaign in the Second World War. It suggests that African American GIs actively nurtured positive relationships with Italian civilians in a number of way...
| Publicado en: | History Vol. 106; no. 373; pp. 775 - 804 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2021
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