Daily Archives: January 1, 2014


After the wrenching cataclysm of the Second World War, Europe’s war shattered countries faced an uncertain and challenging peace. The most immediate problems that needed urgent solutions were how to feed their hungry populations, where to house millions of refugees and how to demobilise the gargantuan war machines that had rampaged over the continent. Italy faced an additional issue – how to deal with a monarchy […]

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