ITALY
 
If this is a man
Primo Levi
Essential reading. Auschwitz memoir by one of Italy's leading authors, conveying the horror of the Nazi genocide

See also Drowned And Saved
 
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Written when the writer was imprisoned by the fascists
 
Accidental death of an anarchist
 
Dario Fo
Play that is a razor-sharp satire on police corruption, by Nobel prize winner
 
Fontamara
 
Ignazio Silone

Classic anti-fascist novel

See also Bread And Wine