Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia John Dickie
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Students were incredibly excited as we used Dr. CBCNews reports that Valentina Tenti (seen in the above photo), an expert on the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, reveled some of the organized crime group's secrets at a Canadian inquiry into organized crime. Timeline created by chelseaszym. I've been looking for a while for a decent history, and this work definitely fits the bill. This is also described in the book Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia. I can't recall if it was a Guilia or a Giulietta, but it became a highly symbolic morbid ritual. Quebec's corruption inquiry heard a detailed history of the Italian Mafia on Tuesday — with everything from its secret codes, its origins and the scope of its reach to how it got into the construction business. Cosa Nostra vividly reconstructs the stories of the men and women who have lived and died in the mafia's shadow. Nostra: Mafia Expert Revels Mob Secrets At Quebec Inquiry. The beginning of the Italian Mafia or Cosa Nostra is hard to identify, because of its secretive nature and lack of historical record keeping. When you're interested in the Mafia, there's a lot of sensationalist non-fiction to be avoided. The History of Sicilian Mafia timeline, an interactive 'History of Sicilian Mafia' timeline on Timetoast. For the Independent, Alice-Azania Jarvis came up with a reading list on the Mafia. A highly recommended read, altough a fairly dark one.