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Christopher Seton-Watson, the Second World War and Italian liberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2016

John Davis
John Davis*
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut, USA
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∗ Email: john.davis@uconn.edu
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Abstract

Dunkirk–Alamein–Bologna: Letters and diaries of an artilleryman 1939–1945 (1994) is based on the letters written by Christopher Seton Watson while on active duty as an officer in the Royal Horse Artillery in the Second World War. In this essay, the correspondence provides a platform for exploring first how CSW's wartime experiences coloured his views on Italy and Italian politics, and then the ways in which those views had developed and changed by the time he published his major study of the crisis of Italian liberalism (Italy from liberalism to fascism 1870–1925 (1967).

Keywords

Christopher Seton-WatsonSecond World WarliberalismFascismhistoriography
Type
Research Article
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Modern Italy , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , November 2011 , pp. 411 - 425
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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