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

Review of Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie. This is also described in the book Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia. The widespread view of the Mafia is that which is portrayed in Hollywood films, and in particular The Godfather trilogy and Goodfellas. Last week Italy made its biggest confiscation of Mafia assets in history, seizing dozens of green-energy companies and other assets worth a total of $1.69 billion. "Kosher Nostra” is a pun on the name “Cosa Nostra” (meaning “our thing"), another name for the Sicilian mafia. A highly recommended read, altough a fairly dark one. Nostra: Mafia Expert Revels Mob Secrets At Quebec Inquiry. Italy's main crime groups -- the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Calabria's 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra from the southern city of Naples -- have a total annual income of $151 billion, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 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. I can't recall if it was a Guilia or a Giulietta, but it became a highly symbolic morbid ritual. While in Sicily, I read Dickie's book detailing the history of the mafia called “Cosa Nostra.” Along with providing a history of the mafia and how it came to be, the book also does a nice job of outlining recent Sicilian history. 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. €Kosher Nostra” is cited in print from at least 1964 and has been applied to Jewish criminals, especially those who associated with the Cosa Nostra. Students were incredibly excited as we used Dr.