Paolo Soave, Una vittoria mutilata? L’Italia e la Conferenza di Pace di Parigi, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli 2020, pp. 160.

Paolo Soave’s book analyses an important theme in twentieth-century Italian history, namely the country’s so-called “mutilated victory” in the First World War with the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference. This is a question that has been neglected by most of international historiography but is of central importance in Italy, as the author points out: the political, economic and social consequences of the war itself and of the Paris Treaty de-legitimized the entire liberal political class and helped to usher in one of the darkest periods in Italy’s history.