Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels, Eastern Border: Italians and Slavs on the Amarissimo from the Risorgimento to the Exodus, Eclettica, Massa 2020, 212 pp.

This book, with a preface by the editor-in-chief of the magazine History On The Net Emanuele Mastrangelo, addresses the issue of relations between Italians and Slavs on the eastern border from the Risorgimento period to the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, passing through the crucial points of the period between the two wars and the occupation and repression in the Balkans, on which many falsehoods, even more than inaccuracies, have been written with the aim of justifying the ethnic cleansing practiced by the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army in the territories of Istria, Dalmatia and Venezia Giulia, culminating in the killing of thousands of Italians and the forced exodus of another 350.000 Istrians and Dalmatians from lands that had been part of Italy since the XX Regio Venetia et Histria of Augustus.
What happened between the war and the post-war period was only the culmination of centuries of difficult coexistence and clashes between Latin and Slavic culture, exacerbated by the rise of irredentism and pan-Slavism first, and of fascism and communism later.
Ours is a challenge to the clichés punctually recited by heart by jugonostalgics and deniers, or rather, by ignorancers, but also to those of the opposite sign that can be summed up as Italians are good people.
No discounts for anyone. To prevent rewriting and foibating history too.

The author. Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels was born in Rome in 1966. An archaeologist and military historian, he is the author of numerous works on the history of the two world wars and the interwar conflicts in Ethiopia and Spain, and on the units of the MVSN, a subject on which he is considered one of the leading international experts. His works include Camicia Nera! History of the Combat Units of the Milizia Volontaria Sicurezza Nazionale from its Origins to 25 July, Südfront. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring in the Italian Campaign 1943-1945, From Sidi el Barrani to Beda Fomm 1940-1941, Death with a Hard Grind. Squad Members 1919-1923. His latest work is To Win, You Need Lions… The Forgotten Fronts of the Blackshirts 1939-1943, Counter-Guerrilla Warfare! The Italian 2nd Army and the Occupation of the Balkans. He was an officer in the Grenadiers of Sardinia. He is the editor of Storia Rivista and contributes to the magazines Nova Historica, Storia in Rete (with the column Fakenews, dedicated to debunking historical clichés), Ritterkreuz, Fronti di guerra, and Il Primato Nazionale.

The volume can be purchased here: http://www.ecletticaedizioni.com/prodotto/confine-orientale-italiani-e-slavi-sullamarissimo-dal-risorgimento-allesodo/