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Virginio Gayda, the Yugoslav Question and the Italian Irredenta
The Twentieth-Century War of the Austrian Succession
Series: - Brill's Specials in Modern History, Volume: 7
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This is a study of the early writings of Virginio Gayda (1885-1944), a talented but amoral Italian journalist whose career spanned two world wars. A keen observer, prolific writer and propagandist during his stint as the newspaper La Stampaâs special correspondent in Habsburg Vienna, Gayda lent his considerable skills to promote an aggressive foreign policy. No one did more than he to poison relations between the Italian and Yugoslav peoples. His is the story of a respected journalist who chose an ultranationalist path to fascism and international fame. Not uninfluenced by rank careerism and material reward he forsook his roots to embrace the antisemitic âraceâ laws of 1938 and Italyâs disastrous partnership with Nazi Germany.
Anthony Di Iorio, Ph.D. (1980), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializes in European diplomatic and Balkan history. Before joining Arlington Public Schools, he taught history at numerous American colleges and universities and served as a founding historian-archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
This book will be welcomed by anyone interested in the origins of the First World War, the postwar disputes between Italy and Yugoslavia and the origins of fascism in Italy.
