On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society.
- ISBN13 9781403980083
- Publish Date 3 May 2007 (first published 8 November 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2004 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 330
- Language English