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