Mussolini's Army in the French RivieraIn contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940 1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe. Employing a multi tiered approach, Emanuele Sica examines the simultaneously conflicting and symbiotic relationship between the French population