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100 1 _aGooch, John.
_eauthor .
245 1 0 _aMussolini's War :
_bFascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 /
_cJohn Gooch
264 1 _a[Place of publication not identified] :
_bPenguin Books, Limited,
_c2020.
300 _axxv, 532 pages ;
_c24cm .
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
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.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
600 1 0 _aMussolini, Benito,
_d1883-1945.
600 1 7 _aMussolini, Benito,
_d1883-1945
_2fast
648 7 _a1914-1945
_2fast
650 4 _aWorld War II.
_2bisacsh
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aHistory
_2fast
655 7 _aMilitary history
_2fast
776 0 8 _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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