Night Of The Sicilian Vespers
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| Author | : C. P. Burbridge |
| Publisher | : Page Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2021-05-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1662417519 |
Joseph Pulaski is an honest cop in turn-of-the-century New York City. A tough badge to wear, along with the one he serves for, the City of New York. But it gets even harder when probably the best friend he has turns up missing. Lt. Gus Petrano has been Pulaski's friend since their days in Five Points. Now his dwelling has been ransacked, and his famous Italian Squad has been disbanded. The daughter of the commissioner of police (Petrano's boss) has been kidnapped. He finds the United States Secret Service is involved, along with a mafia don from Sicily, a Chinese Tong leader, and the most powerful street gang leader in the city of New York. If that's not enough, he has pissed off Tammany Hall, who may be the most dangerous of them all. What ensues is a battle of wits that puts Pulaski and his team of Kelly Donaher and Noah Weber in a fight for their lives. It entails the Sicilian list, the Black Hand, and a battle for control of New York City's rackets.
| Author | : Carl Sifakis |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 529 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0816069891 |
More than 500 alphabetical entries provide information on the people, places and events associated with the Mafia.
| Author | : Michele Amari |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1850 |
| Genre | : Sicilian Vespers, Italy, 1282 |
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| Author | : Steven Runciman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2012-03-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781107604742 |
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians might seem just another resistance movement. But the events of 1282 came at a crucial moment. Steven Runciman takes the Vespers as the climax of a great narrative sweep covering the whole of the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century. His sustained narrative power is displayed here with concentrated brilliance in the rise and fall of this fascinating episode. This is also an excellent guide to the historical background to Dante's Divine Comedy, forming almost a Who's Who of the political figures in it, and providing insight into their placement in Hell, Paradise or Purgatory.
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| Total Pages | : 72 |
| Release | : 1972-07-10 |
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
| Author | : Peter Robb |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2014-08-05 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1466861290 |
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.
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| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 1810 |
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| Author | : Patrick White |
| Publisher | : Text Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1925774414 |
An essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
| Author | : Sicilian Vespers |
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| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 1810 |
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| Author | : James Fentress |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Crime |
| ISBN | : 9780801435393 |
Fentress, a former political philosophy professor at Brunel U. in London, England and current resident of Italy, describes the historical emergence and evolution of the Mafia, from the early- to mid-19th century Sicilian alliances between "men of honor" and intellectuals in the struggle for independence from the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples to the longstanding covert relationships that are protecting today's mafiosi. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
