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Hitler's Italian allies : = Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-43 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Hitler's Italian allies :/ MacGregor Knox.
Reminder of title:	Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-43 /
Author:	Knox, MacGregor,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 - Italy. -
Subject:	Italy - History - 15th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613487
ISBN:	9780511613487 (ebook)

Hitler's Italian allies : = Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-43 /
Knox, MacGregor,

Hitler's Italian allies :Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-43 /MacGregor Knox. - 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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 military 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.

ISBN: 9780511613487 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800797
World War, 1939-1945
--Italy.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800725
Italy
--History--15th century.

LC Class. No.: D763.I8 / K57 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 940.54/1245

Hitler's Italian allies : = Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-43 /
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