Portelli manages to show how an historic event which is supposedly very well-known has in fact been largely hidden under layers of mystification during its constant telling and retelling.' - Alexander Stille, author of Future of the Past It is an intricate and compelling account of one of the central events of the German occupation of Rome during World War II, a partisan attack followed by a retaliatory Nazi massacre. Portelli's work is to be valued not only for the light it casts on an important moment in the history of the Italian Resistance, but also for what it has to say about the history of the working classes in Rome.' - Journal of Modern Italian Studies'Alessandro Portelli's The Order Has Been Carried Out is a major work by a scholar who has already helped to form the field of oral history.
