John Dickie Books

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS explores the terrifying consequences of the rise of the Italian mafias.

'If only we could all write as brilliantly on Italy and its food as John Dickie does. He may well know Italy and Italians better than they know themselves' Stanley TucciThe new edition of the much-loved classic, with a fresh chapter that brings the surprising and moreish tale of the Italian way of eating right up to the present.Delizia! takes the reader on a revelatory historical journey through the flavours of the cities that shaped the Italian love for good eating. From the bustle of Medieval Milan, to the bombast of Fascist Rome; from the pleasure gardens of Renaissance Ferrara, to the putrid alleyways of nineteenth-century Naples. In rich slices of Italian life, Delizia! shows how violence and intrigue, as well as taste and creativity, went to make the world's favourite cuisine. With its mix of vivid story-telling, ground-breaking research and shrewd analysis, John Dickie's Delizia! is as appetising as the dishes it describes.

Not since Anthony Eden's Suez War of 1956 has Britain's foreign policy provoked such intense controversy. But how are British foreign policy decisions taken? How does British diplomacy actually work? For generations the Foreign Office operated as an elitist, secretive institution resisting intrusion and change. Now this book reveals the revolution which transformed the Foreign Office. John Dickie describes for the first time how the new mandarins are tested, selected, trained and promoted in Britain's Diplomatic Service. His unrivalled knowledge has enabled him to illuminate the structures of foreign policy making in London, the relationships between career diplomats and the Foreign Secretary, and the workings of the backroom experts connected to shadowy, powerful figures in other capitals. Dickie discloses much that was not previously known, such as the operations of the Anglo-American Intelligence network; the distrust of Britain's European partners; the ""brain trust"" of academics who provide intellectual rationale for policies; the ways in which foreign policy is affected from the outside through M.P.s, think-tanks, campaigning non-government-organizations and the media.

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.

The story of the mafia is not just what we see Tony Soprano and his boys doing on Sunday nights. In this vivid, gripping history of "cosa nostra," a noted historian of Italian culture uses startling new research to reveal what the mafia is and always has been: a secret society whose power is based on murder. 16 pages of photos.

Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is influential.

+++Haarsträubendes True Crime: Erstmals die wahre Geschichte der gesamten Mafia mit all ihren Gesichtern – Camorra, Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta. Von Bestsellerautor John Dickie+++Sie stehen für Korruption, Subventionsbetrug, Menschenhandel, Erpressung und Mord. Jeder dieser Mafiaclans hat seine eigene Geschichte, dunklen Rituale, Grausamkeiten und speziellen Geschäftmethoden. Alle drei haben ihre erbarmungslose Herrschaft international etabliert. Ihren blutigen Werdegang von einstmals lokalen Verbrecherorganisationen zu international kooperierenden Unternehmen erzählt der Bestsellerautor und Historiker John Dickie auf Grundlage umfangreicher, beeindruckender Recherchen. Die brutale Wahrheit hinter den Mythen, glänzend erzählt, spannend, packender als jeder Krimi.

Dějiny italské mafie jsou psány krví. John Dickie, autor knihy Cosa Nostra, se ponořil ještě hlouběji do archivů a ve světle nejnovějších poznatků rozkrývá vznik a historii tří nejvýznamnějších odnoží italské mafie: sicilské Cosy Nostry, neapolské Camorry a kalábrijské \\\'Ndranghety. Na jednotlivých příbězích ukazuje tragické osudy statečných můžu a žen, kteří se mafii postavili a představuje heroické soudce a policisty, kteří proti mafii neúnavně bojovali a často ve jméno spravedlnosti položili život.