Giovanni Oliva (short Gianni, born in

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) is an Italian

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and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

. Oliva specialises in

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modern history, and in particular subjects related to the history of Italy during World War II. He has written books about the Italian resistance movement, Italian war crimes,Oliva, Gianni (2006
''«Si ammazza troppo poco». I crimini di guerra italiani. 1940-43''
Mondadori, German and fascist war crimes in Italy during the 1943-1945 period, the Italian Social Republic, the 1945 anti-fascist epuration, the foibe massacres and the

Istrian–Dalmatian exodus The Istrian–Dalmatian exodus (; ; ) was the post-World War II exodus and departure of local ethnic Italians (Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians) as well as ethnic Slovenes, Croats, and Istro-Romanians from the Yugoslav territory of Juli ...

. Oliva has also been active in politics, and has held several public offices, first as a member of the

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, then of the

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*1989 ''La Resistenza alle porte di Torino'' *1994 ''I vinti e i liberati'',

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, Milano *1996 ''I 600 giorni di

Salò Salò (; la, Salodium) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy (northern Italy) on the banks of Lake Garda, on which it has the longest promenade. The city was the seat of government of the Italian Socia ...

'', Giunti *1997 ''La Repubblica di

'', Giunti *1998 ''I Savoia'', Mondadori, Milano *1999 ''La resa dei conti'', Mondadori, Milano *2000 ''

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'', Mondadori, Milano *2001 ''Storia degli Alpini'', Mondadori, Milano *2002 ''

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, Le stragi negate degli italiani della Venezia Giulia e dell'Istria'', Mondadori, Milano *2002 ''Storia dei

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'', Mondadori, Milano *2003 ''Duchi d'

Aosta Aosta (, , ; french: Aoste , formerly ; frp, Aoûta , ''Veulla'' or ''Ouhta'' ; lat, Augusta Praetoria Salassorum; wae, Augschtal; pms, Osta) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, north-northwest of ...

'', Mondadori, Milano *2003 ''La Resistenza'', Giunti *2004 ''Le tre italie del 1943'', Mondadori, Milano *2005 ''Profughi'', Mondadori, Milano *2006 ''«Si ammazza troppo poco».'' I crimini di guerra italiani (Italian war crimes) 1940-43, Mondadori, Milano *2007 ''L'ombra nera- le stragi nazifasciste che non ricordiamo più'', Mondadori, Milano *2009 ''Soldati e Ufficiali - L'esercito italiano dal Risorgimento a oggi'', Mondadori, Milano *2011 ''Esuli. Dalle foibe ai campi profughi: la tragedia degli italiani di Istria, Fiume, Dalmazia'', Mondadori *2011 ''Primavera 1945. Il sangue della guerra civile'', Giunti *2012 ''Un regno che è stato grande. La storia negata dei Borboni di Napoli e Sicilia'', Mondadori, Milano

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