Mafia Brotherhoods by John Dickie - ISBN: 9780340963944
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Italy’s three most powerful mafias: their rise, secrets, and reign of terror.

Mafia Brotherhoods

Camorra, mafia, 'ndrangheta: the rise of the Honoured Societies

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    464 pages

  • Release Date

    10 April 2012

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Summary

MAFIA BROTHERHOODS is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA.

Mafia. Camorra. ‘Ndrangheta.

The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy’s only dangerous criminal fraternity. The south of the country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra, from Naples and its hinterland; and the ‘ndrangheta, the mafia from the poor and isolated region of Calabria that has now risen to become the most pow…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340963944
ISBN-10:0340963948
Author:John Dickie
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:10 April 2012
Weight:374g
Dimensions:198mm x 164mm x 31mm
Series:Sceptre
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Reviews for COSA NOSTRA: - .

Dogged…a brave work. This is the first history of the Sicilian Mafia to be written by a non-Italian. It gives John Dickie a necessary detachment, frosty and undeceived. - Mail on Sunday

I couldn’t put it down. His archival sleuthing is yoked to his powerful , often coruscating story-telling to create a sinister, horrific reality. - John Guy, The Sunday Times

Monumental and gripping - Andrew Marr, BBC Start the Week

Combines scholarship with a rip-roaring read - Sunday Herald

‘Readable history’. - TLS

REVIEWS FOR BLOOD BROTHERHOODS (THE HARDBACK EDITION): - .

His narrative bowls along, powered by the sort of muscular prose one associates with great detective fiction. An exhilarating history. - Financial Times

About The Author

John Dickie

John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at University College London and an internationally recognised expert on many aspects of Italian history. In 2005 he was awarded the title Commendatore dell’Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta Italiana.

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