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Mussolini's War - Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 (Paperback)
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Mussolini's War - Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 (Paperback)
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WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY A
DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 From an acclaimed military
historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the
Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,
Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940.
Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French
and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the
hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa.
This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to
its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties and an
Allied invasion in 1943 which ushered in a terrible new era for the
country. John Gooch's new book is the definitive account of Italy's
war experience. Beginning with the invasion of Abyssinia and ending
with Mussolini's arrest, Gooch brilliantly portrays the nightmare
of a country with too small an industrial sector, too incompetent a
leadership and too many fronts on which to fight. Everywhere -
whether in the USSR, the Western Desert or the Balkans - Italian
troops found themselves against either better-equipped or more
motivated enemies. The result was a war entirely at odds with the
dreams of pre-war Italian planners - a series of desperate
improvizations against Allies who could draw on global resources
and against whom Italy proved helpless. This remarkable book
rightly shows the centrality of Italy to the war, outlining the
brief rise and disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign.
'It is hard to imagine a finer account, both of the sweep of
Italy's wars, and of the characters caught up in them' Caroline
Moorhead, The Guardian
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