Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia |
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John Dickie
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Pages: 528 (Paperback)
ISBN: 034093526X
Pub: Hodder Paperback
Pub date: 2007-03-08
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19681
Reader Reviews:
It all started with Lemons !!! (4/4 people found this helpful)
Well I never.........but it really did, way back in the 1800's in Sicily.
I had no idea what to expect, and took to the task of reading what was described by a fellow Anglo-Italian as "the finest read concerning the Cosa Nostra" with great gusto.
Being written by an academic, (and not being one myself) it meant that there was always going to be some heavy going content, and the middle phase is indeed that. Great, but you do have to have your wits about you to take it in and it is all relative to the latter events and the developing threads. Dickie clearly knows his stuff and his supporting research is meticulous.
Covers everything, and everyone, from the startings back in the 1800's right up to modern day, including excellent quality detail on the Maxi trials and the assasinations of those brave Mafia-busting Judges, Falcone and Borsellino.
It even covers the export of Cosa Nostra to the USA and exposes the quite different methods and "management styles", albeit their "business interests" are very much aligned.
I read this alongside Donnie Brasco and it was quite amazing how much more I was able to relate to what he actually went through for those years and the magnitude of his achievements.
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