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Translation of Užaljeno maščevanje (Spiteful Revenge) published by Donzelli Editore, Rome

Published on: May 15, 2025

The internment of Slovenian men and women in Italian Fascist camps—one of the most violent and hence the most traumatic chapters of the twentieth-century Slovenian history—has until recently remained a little known and severely under-researched topic. Even though those deported to Italian internment camps at Gonars in the Province of Udine and as far as the small island of Ustica in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea represent "no more than" one-tenth of all the casualties of the Second World War on Slovenian soil, they too deserve to be the subject of in-depth and comprehensive historical research. Not least also because historical studies conducted so far have rarely relied on accounts provided by the returnees.

Italian translation of the book Užaljeno maščevanje, which was awarded the Klio Prize of the Association of Historical Societies of Slovenia in December 2024 for the best historical work in 2022 and 2023. The translation is published by Donzelli Editore, an independent Italian publishing house in Rome, dedicated to publications in the humanities and fiction.