Claudia Baldoli is Senior Lecturer in European History at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Exporting Fascism: Italian Fascists and Britain s Italians in the 1930s (2003) and "A History of Italy"(2009). She is also the co-editor, along with Andrew Knapp, of "Forgotten Blitzes: France and Italy under Allied Air Attack, 1940-1945" (2012).