Palermo became an Italian city on 7 June 1860 when, under the terms of a ceasefire, two long columns of defeated troops snaked out from its eastern edges, and doubled back round outside the walls to await the ships that would ferry them home to Naples.
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Cosa Nostra
A History of the Sicilian Mafia
by John Dickie and Dickie, John
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"Cosa Nostra vividly reconstructs the stories of the men and women who have lived and died in the mafia's shadow. It explains how the mafia began, how it responds to threats and challenges and how it maintains its grip on the society where it was born. Cosa Nostra takes us inside the thought-processes of the mafia's leaders and foot soldiers, its friends and its foes. Its cast of characters includes Antonino Giammona, the first man with a claim to the title 'boss of bosses'; Emanuele Notarbartolo, the honest and courageous banker who in 1893 became the mafia's first 'eminent corpse'; New York cop Joe Petrosino who underestimated the Sicilian mafia and paid for this with his life, and Bernardo 'the Tractor' Provenzano, the current boss of bosses who has been in hiding in Sicily since 1963."--BOOK JACKET.
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Mafia, History, United States, Historia, Sicily, True Crime / Espionage, History: World, Western Europe - General, Organized Crime, True Crime / Organized Crime, Italy, Modern - 20th Century, Mafia -- Italy -- Sicily -- History., Mafia -- United States -- History., Mafia -- Italia -- Sicilia -- Historia., Mafia -- Estados Unidos -- Historia., Sicily (italy), historyShowing 4 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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Cosa Nostra: istorii͡a sit͡siliĭskoĭ mafii
2005, "ĖKSMO", Midgard
in Russian
5699126716 9785699126712
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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
January 2004, Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover
in English
0340824344 9780340824344
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Cosa Nostra: de geschiedenis van de Siciliaanse maffia
2004, Anthos, Standaard
in Dutch
9076341761 9789076341767
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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
October 7, 2004, Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover
in English
1403966966 9781403966964
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From the mafia's origins in the 1860s to its current tense relationship with the Berlusconi government, this is a vivid and gripping history of the Sicilian Mafia's inner sanctum.
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