"The Order Has Been Carried Out" 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.
Author Biography
Alessandro Portelli is Professor of American Literature at the University of Rome-La Sapienza. He is the author of The Death of Luigi Trastulli: Form and Meaning in Oral History; The Text and the Voice: Speaking, Writing, and Democracy in American Literature; The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue; and The Order Has Already Been Carried Out: History, Memory and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome.
