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Armies of the Italian-Turkish War - Conquest of Libya, 1911-1912 (Paperback)
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Armies of the Italian-Turkish War - Conquest of Libya, 1911-1912 (Paperback)
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In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost
some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of
North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria
in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was the last
North African (almost, the last African) region not yet conquered
by a European colonialist power. Italy was a young country,
ambitious for colonies, but had been defeated in Ethiopia in the
1890s. The Italian government of Giovanni Giolitti was keen to
overwrite the memory of that failure, and to gain a strategic grip
over the central Mediterranean by seizing Libya, just across the
narrows from Sicily. The Italian expeditionary force that landed in
October 1911 easily defeated the Ottoman division based in the
coastal cities, incurring few losses. However, the Libyan inland
tribes reacted furiously to the Italian conquest, and their
insurgency cost the Italians thousands of casualties, locking them
into the coastal enclaves during a winter stalemate which
diminished Italian public enthusiasm for the war. To retrieve
Italian prestige the government launched a naval campaign in the
Dardanelles and the Dodecanese - the last Turkish held archipelago
in the Aegean - in April-May 1912, and landed troops to capture
Rhodes. The army finally pushed inland in Libya in July- October
(using systematic air reconnaissance, for the first time), and
after brutal fighting the war ended in a treaty that brought Italy
all it wanted, although though the Libyan tribes would not finally
be quelled until after World War I. Containing accurate full-colour
artwork and unrivalled detail, Armies of the Italian-Turkish War
offers a vivid insight into the troops involved in this pivotal
campaign, including the tribal insurgents and the navies of both
sides.
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