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Hitler's Italian Allies. Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943

Door MacGregor Knox

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#266758
Titel
Hitler's Italian Allies. Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943
Auteur
Knox, MacGregor
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
0521790476
ISBN13
9780521790475
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

Fascist Italy's ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler's failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy's defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own unaided forces in the entire Second World War was a dusty and useless corner of Africa, British Somaliland. And Italy's forces dissolved in 1943 almost without resistance, in stark contrast to the grim fight to the last cartridge of Hitler's army or the fanatical faithfulness unto death of the troops of Imperial Japan. This book tries to understand why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffective at an activity - war - central to their existence. It approaches the issue above all from the perspective of mili
... (Lees verder)tary culture, through analysis of the services' failure to imagine modern warfare and through a topical structure that offers a social-cultural, political, military-economic, strategic, operational, and tactical cross-section of the war effort.
Pagina's
207
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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