Simona Tobia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3555908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simona Tobia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simona |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobia |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6368-8469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Contested Legacy: The Memory of World War II in the United States
A Contested Legacy: The Memory of World War II in the United States
International audience
“They didn’t break me either way”. Women, Captivity and Interrogation in World War II: Resurfacing Self-Empowering Narratives
Interrogation and questioning are often remembered as life-changing by those who have been incarcerated in wartime, and they represent a key element of the prisoner of war experience in memories and personal narratives of former captives. However, women’s accounts of interrogation and questioning in World War II are not as easy to find as men’s. Women only rarely fit the definition of POW because even when they were combatants, they hardly were l…
In Enemy Hands. Allied Prisoners’ Interrogation Experiences and Memories in the Second World War
Interrogation represents a crucial moment for prisoners of war, and this article examines the deep influence that cultural issues had on those who experienced interrogation during the Second World War. Memory, gender and race, are considered in relation to the collection of human intelligence not simply from the point of view of military and security studies, but — drawing on historical and memory studies — the impact on the people involved is ex…
Close encounters: The role of culture in interrogation and questioning in the Second World War
This article discusses the role of interrogation in intelligence during the Second World War, and it focuses on the importance of culture in the collection of Human Intelligence in the European theatre of operation. It argues that cultural issues, including but not limited to language knowledge, provided an added value to interrogation, interviewing and questioning during and after the Second World War, for example through the employment of nativ…
Did the RAI buy it? The role and limits of American broadcasting in Italy in the Cold War
With a 20 million dollar budget and 1,900 staff, Voice of America broadcast in 45 different languages and Italy was one of its main targets. By looking into what went on behind the microphone, this article addresses the extent to which cultural change was planned and structured transnationally, the interactions and interdependencies operating between Washington and Rome, and how cooperation was achieved despite the fierce resistance of some of Ra…
WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47
Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war
Victims of War: Refugees’ First Contacts with the British in the Second World War
Among those who ‘meet the other in war and conflict’ are the hundreds of thousands of refugees, displaced people, exiles and escapers — all of them ‘victims of war’ — who for various reasons had to leave their countries during and after World War II. At the end of the conflict, this massive forced migration represented a problem of great magnitude, as millions of people had been expelled, or had chosen to leave their homes: more than ten million …
Advertising America: VOA and Italy
With President Truman's ‘Campaign of Truth’ in the 1950s, Voice of America (VOA) established itself as one of the most important information programmes of the US government. The $20 million budget allocated to VOA in those years enabled it to employ about 1900 people and to broadcast in 45 different languages. Italy, with its strong and threatening Communist Party, was one of VOA's main targets. However, audience research (performed by the United…
Introduction: Europe Americanized? Popular reception of Western Cold War propaganda in Europe
Questioning the Nazis: Languages and effectiveness in British war crime investigations and trials in Germany, 194548
At the end of the Second World War in Europe, the urge to dispense justice and to punish war crimes was one of the most important issues in the dissolution of the conflict. Investigators, interrogators and interpreters had a crucial function in communicating the conflict in the denazification process. The questioning of enemies in the effort to dispense justice problematizes the meanings of the conflict itself and shapes the identities of those i…
WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47
Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war
Questioning the Nazis: Languages and effectiveness in British war crime investigations and trials in Germany, 194548
At the end of the Second World War in Europe, the urge to dispense justice and to punish war crimes was one of the most important issues in the dissolution of the conflict. Investigators, interrogators and interpreters had a crucial function in communicating the conflict in the denazification process. The questioning of enemies in the effort to dispense justice problematizes the meanings of the conflict itself and shapes the identities of those i…
Questioning the Nazis: Languages and effectiveness in British war crime investigations and trials in Germany, 194548
At the end of the Second World War in Europe, the urge to dispense justice and to punish war crimes was one of the most important issues in the dissolution of the conflict. Investigators, interrogators and interpreters had a crucial function in communicating the conflict in the denazification process. The questioning of enemies in the effort to dispense justice problematizes the meanings of the conflict itself and shapes the identities of those i…
Advertising America: VOA and Italy
With President Truman's ‘Campaign of Truth’ in the 1950s, Voice of America (VOA) established itself as one of the most important information programmes of the US government. The $20 million budget allocated to VOA in those years enabled it to employ about 1900 people and to broadcast in 45 different languages. Italy, with its strong and threatening Communist Party, was one of VOA's main targets. However, audience research (performed by the United…
Introduction: Europe Americanized? Popular reception of Western Cold War propaganda in Europe
Victims of War: Refugees’ First Contacts with the British in the Second World War
Among those who ‘meet the other in war and conflict’ are the hundreds of thousands of refugees, displaced people, exiles and escapers — all of them ‘victims of war’ — who for various reasons had to leave their countries during and after World War II. At the end of the conflict, this massive forced migration represented a problem of great magnitude, as millions of people had been expelled, or had chosen to leave their homes: more than ten million …
Did the RAI buy it? The role and limits of American broadcasting in Italy in the Cold War
With a 20 million dollar budget and 1,900 staff, Voice of America broadcast in 45 different languages and Italy was one of its main targets. By looking into what went on behind the microphone, this article addresses the extent to which cultural change was planned and structured transnationally, the interactions and interdependencies operating between Washington and Rome, and how cooperation was achieved despite the fierce resistance of some of Ra…
WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47
Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war
Close encounters: The role of culture in interrogation and questioning in the Second World War
This article discusses the role of interrogation in intelligence during the Second World War, and it focuses on the importance of culture in the collection of Human Intelligence in the European theatre of operation. It argues that cultural issues, including but not limited to language knowledge, provided an added value to interrogation, interviewing and questioning during and after the Second World War, for example through the employment of nativ…
In Enemy Hands. Allied Prisoners’ Interrogation Experiences and Memories in the Second World War
Interrogation represents a crucial moment for prisoners of war, and this article examines the deep influence that cultural issues had on those who experienced interrogation during the Second World War. Memory, gender and race, are considered in relation to the collection of human intelligence not simply from the point of view of military and security studies, but — drawing on historical and memory studies — the impact on the people involved is ex…
“They didn’t break me either way”. Women, Captivity and Interrogation in World War II: Resurfacing Self-Empowering Narratives
Interrogation and questioning are often remembered as life-changing by those who have been incarcerated in wartime, and they represent a key element of the prisoner of war experience in memories and personal narratives of former captives. However, women’s accounts of interrogation and questioning in World War II are not as easy to find as men’s. Women only rarely fit the definition of POW because even when they were combatants, they hardly were l…
A Contested Legacy: The Memory of World War II in the United States
A Contested Legacy: The Memory of World War II in the United States
International audience
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · World War II (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Computer security (3 works)