Description: Full title: Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime and the War of 1940-1943. Hardcover. Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000. First Edition. Author is MacGregor Knox. Book and dust jacket are in brand new condition, never read. 207 pages. 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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Book Title: Hitler's Italian Allies
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Topic: Military, Italian Military History, Military History, World War II
Number of Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
Type: Text
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: MacGregor Knox
Book Series: Historical
Publication Year: 2000
Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Signed: No
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: History, Military
Subjects: History & Military
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Era: 1940s
