Giorgio Bocca

Giorgio Bocca ( ​​born August 28, 1920 in Cuneo, † December 25, 2011 in Milan ) was an Italian writer and journalist.

Life

In his youth, Bocca was like many of his peers, an avid supporter of Mussolini and worked for a time for the local weekly newspaper La Provincia fascist Grande - Sentinella d' Italia.

In early 1943, he distanced himself from fascism and joined the Resistance to. He was, along with men like Duccio Galimberti Tancredi, Dante Livio Bianco and Benedetto Dalmastro, one of the founders of the partisan movement Giustizia e Libertà and commander of the 10th Division, which fought in Piedmont.

Towards the end of the war he resumed his work as a journalist and wrote for the newspaper of the organization. After the war he wrote for the newspaper Gazzetta del Popolo and Il Giorno and the magazine L' Europeo.

By working as a journalist, he came to his literary work. Main focus of his work was the light of social and societal backgrounds that were in his opinion the cause of the social crisis and the resulting germinating terrorism in Italy in the 70s.

Large notoriety gained especially his books on terrorism and its interviews with the protagonists. He also wrote several books on historical topics, including some of the partisan movement, which he had himself belongs.

In recent years, he appeared increasingly as a critic of globalization, the rise of Silvio Berlusconi and U.S. foreign policy in appearance.