Massimo Salvadori, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British-Italian historian
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Place of Birth: London
About Massimo Salvadori
- Massimo Salvadori, or Max William Salvadori Paleotti (16 June 1908, in London – 1992) was a British-Italian historian and anti-Fascist.Salvadori was educated at the University of Geneva and the University of Rome.
- He was involved in the anti-Fascist movement in Italy before World War II.
- Imprisoned from 1931-32 as a result of his political activities, Salvadori fled Italy for Switzerland.
- In 1943 he joined the British army and after participating in landings at Salerno and Anzio, parachuted into Italy to organize resistance.
- As agent of the British Special Operations Executive, Salvadori played a central role in providing weapons supplies for partisan formations and in pushing the Action Party to cooperate with the Italian Monarchy after the "svolta di Salerno" (1944).
- For this service, he was awarded the Military Cross and Distinguished Service Order.
- He served on the faculty of Smith College from 1945 until his retirement in 1973, with two notable breaks: in 1948-49 he was director of the Division of Political Science of UNESCO in France and in 1952 he worked as a political analyst for the Information Service of the Secretariat of NATO.
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