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Author : William Aldworth Home Hare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Italy
ISBN : UCAL:$B71885
Author : John Gooch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521193078
A major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army in the First World War. Setting military events in a broad context, Gooch explores pre-war Italian military culture, and reveals how an army with a reputation for failure fought a challenging war in appalling conditions - and won.
Author : Marshal Pietro Badoglio
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257413
Marshal Pietro Badolgio was involved in the highest levels of the Italian political hierarchy ever since his early successes in the First World War, for which he was promoted General. He was head of the Italian Armed Forces from 1925 to 1940, and did his best to raise the military to a level that might match the expansionist views of Mussolini. He presided over the brutal invasion of Ethiopia, but nationally he acted as a counter-balance to Mussolini’s pre-World War II schemes. Unable to stop the inevitable disaster following the Italian-German Pact of Steel and the onset of war, he resigned as Chief Of Staff after the humiliating reverses of the Italian invasion of Greece. He was brought back into the political spotlight in 1943, after the fall of Mussolini, and was named Prime Minister of Italy during the turbulent months of their volte face change of sides. His position was unenviable, caught between the Italian people who cried out for peace and the Allied powers who pursued German defeat in Italy by armed force. In this fascinating book he recounts his memories and recollections of Italy during the Second World War, particularly focussed on his attempts to hold the country together in 1943 and 1944.
Author : Charles à Court Repington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Italy
ISBN : OXFORD:590834949
Author : Ciro Paoletti
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073660030
This book follows Italy's military history from the late Renaissance through the present day, arguing that its leaders have consistently looked back to the power of Imperial Rome as they sought to bolster Italy's status and influence in the world. As early as the late 15th century, Italian city-states played important roles in European conflicts. After unification in 1861, the military would become the nation's unifying force, the melting pot of the state. Italy's industrial and then colonial expansion brought it into the wars of the 20th century. The rise of fascist movement was the disastrous consequence of Italy's desire for colonial and military power, a history that the nation still confronts as it seeks to play a role in world politics. Wealthy, urban Italy has always had great political, cultural, and strategic importance for Europe. The leaders of its independent city-states intervened militarily in struggles among the European powers to its north and west but also against the expanding Muslim empires to its south and east. Italian culture supported military innovation, developing (for instance) new fortifications and naval organizations. After centuries of division, which limited Italy's power against the larger, unified European nations, the military played an important role in the nationalist unification of the entire country. Rapid industrialization followed, and along with it Italy's forays into overseas colonialism. Italy became a major power, but its turn to militant fascism during its expansionist era continues to haunt its state and military.
Author : Mattia Roveri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030571610
This book sheds new light on the role of the military in Italian society and culture during war and peacetime by bringing together a whole host of contributors across the interdisciplinary spectrum of Italian Studies. Divided into five thematic units, this volume examines the continuous and multifaceted impact of the military on modern and contemporary Italy. The Italian context offers a particularly fertile ground for studying the cultural impact of the military because the institution was used not only for defensive/offensive purposes, but also to unify the country and to spread ideas of socio-cultural and technological development across its diverse population.
Author : Kenneth E. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OSU:32435009242553
Author : Philip Jowett
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1855328666
Immediately after the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943, Mussolini was deposed and the new Italian government switched sides. The German occupying forces swiftly freed Il Duce and ruthlessly disarmed the Italian Army; and from then until the end of the war in April 1945 Italian troops fought on both sides - with the forces of the new Fascist 'Salo Republic', in the Allied 'Co-Belligerent Forces', and in the Partisan movement. This period of bitter struggle saw the appearance of many new units and a wide range of interesting uniforms, described and illustrated in this final part of Philip Jowett's comprehensive three-volume series.
Author : Vanda Wilcox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Morale
ISBN : 1316693813
Author : Paolo Morisi
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912866168
The Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and the Italian Arditi of World War I were elite special forces charged with carrying out bold raids and daring attacks. These units were comprised of hand-picked soldiers that possessed above-average courage, physical prowess as well as specific combat skills. Many military historians have argued that the First World War was mainly a static conflict of positional attrition, but these shock troops were responsible for developing breakthrough tactics of both fire and movement that marked a significant change to the status quo. Both armies used special assault detachments to capture prisoners, conduct raids behind enemy lines and attack in depth in order to prepare the way for a broad infantry breakthrough. This account traces the development of Austrian and Italian assault troop tactics in the context of trench warfare waged in the mountainous front of the Alps and the rocky hills of the Carso plateau. It not only examines their innovative tactics but also their adoption of vastly improved new weapons such as light machine-guns, super-heavy artillery, flamethrowers, hand grenades, daggers, steel clubs and poison gas. This book offers a narrative of the organizational development of the shock and assault troops, of their military operations and their combat methods. The bulk of the chapters are devoted to a historical reconstruction of the assault detachments' combat missions between 1917-18 by utilizing previously unreleased archival sources such as Italian and Austrian war diaries, official manuals, divisional and High Command reports and the soldiers' own recollections of the war. Finally, it offers a comprehensive description of their uniforms, equipment, and weapons, along with a large number of illustrations, maps and period photographs rarely seen. This epic trial of military strength of these special stormtroops cannot be properly understood without visiting, and walking, the battlefields. The appendix thus offers the reader a series of walks to visits key high mountain fortifications in the Italian Dolomites, many of which have attained almost legendary status.
Author : Albert N. Garland,Howard McGraw Smyth,Martin Blumenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:471655042
Author : Max Werner (pseud)
Publisher : London, Gollansz
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : UCAL:$B315273
Originally published in 1940, this is a fascinating pre-war assessment of the military state of affairs in Europe, Asia and beyond.Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include Europe in Arms The Military Strength of the Soviet Union The Offensive Strength of the Red Army Red Strategy The Military Strength of Germany The War Doctrine of National Socialist Germany Germany and a War on Several Fronts The Military Strength of France The Consequences of British Rearmament Italy as a Military Factor The Red Army and the German Army The Red Army in a European Defensive Coalition Poland Between two Camps Japan and the Soviet Union The U.S.A.,Europe and the Pacific (from Amazon).
Author : Silvio Beretta,Axel Berkofsky,Fabio Rugge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788847025684
This book provides an enlightening comparative analysis of Japan’s and Italy’s political cultures and systems, economics, and international relations from World War II to the present day. It addresses a variety of fascinating questions, ranging from the origins of the authoritarian regimes and post-war one-party rule in both countries, through to Japan’s and Italy’s responses to the economic and societal challenges posed by globalization and their international ambitions and strategies. Similarities and differences between the two countries with regard to economic development models, the relationship of politics and business, economic structures and developments, and international relations are analyzed in depth. This innovative volume on an under-researched area will be of great interest to those with an interest in Italian and Japanese politics and economics.
Author : War office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591027821
Author : Mike Roberts
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473855960
Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 203 BC. Most studies concentrate on Hannibals series of stunning victories in the early stages of the war, culminating at Cannae in 216 BC, then refocus on the activities of his nemesis ,Scipio Africanus, in Spain until the two meet in the final showdown at Zama. But this has led to the neglect of some of the Carthaginian genius most remarkable campaigns. By 212 the wider war was definitely going against the Carthaginians. Yet Hannibal, despite being massively outnumbered and with little support from home, was able to sustain his polyglot army and campaign actively across southern Italy for another ten years. His skilful manoeuvring and victory in numerous engagements kept several veteran armies of the normally aggressive Romans tied up and on the defensive, until Scipios invasion of North Africa pulled him home to defend Carthage. Mike Roberts follows the course of these remarkable events in detail, analysing Hannibals strategy and aims in this phase of the war and revealing a genius that had lost none of its lustre in adversity.
