The Mafia at War: The Shocking True Story of America's Wartime Pact with Organized Crime
- ISBN-10
- 1616087447
- ISBN-13
- 9781616087449
- Series
- The Mafia at War
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
- Author
- Tim Newark
Description
An account of the cooperation between Allied powers and both American and Sicilian gangsters during World War II describes how the mafia sought to repair its image by assisting the war effort and came to dominate global crime as a result.
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