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_aGooch, John. _eauthor . |
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_aMussolini's War : _bFascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 / _cJohn Gooch |
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_a[Place of publication not identified] : _bPenguin Books, Limited, _c2020. |
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520 | 8 | _aIt 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 Guardian0From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World War0While 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.0 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. 0 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.0 This remarkable book rightly shows the centrality of Italy to the war, outlining the brief rise and disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. | |
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_aMussolini, Benito, _d1883-1945. |
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_iPrint version: _aGooch, John. _tMussolini's War : Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943. _d[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books, Limited 2020 _z9780241185704 _w(OCoLC)1156368785 |
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