Italy hopes to bring the Roman Empire back (1940) - Milhaud Maps

This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the newspaper the New York Journal-American in 1940, in the context of World War II. Burke’s work, unlike other maps such as this one dedicated to Japan and this one dedicated to the Soviet Union, does not openly attack the position of Fascist Italy in the war, but shows some empathy with regard to its situation, although it continues to be included within a propaganda objective. On the map, It…