World War Ii Partisan Warfare In Italy

Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472808943

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World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy by Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani Pdf

When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage and assassinations, the groups continued to grow until spring 1944 when a remarkable, unified partisan command structure was created. Working in close co-ordination with the Allies, they received British SOE and American OSS liaison teams as well as supplies of weapons. The German response was ferocious, and in autumn 1944, as the Allied advance stalled, the SS and Italian RSI looked to eradicate the partisans once and for all. But when the Allies made their final breakthrough in the last weeks of the war the partisans rose again to exact their revenge on the retreating Wehrmacht. From an expert on Italian military history in World War II, this work provides a comprehensive guide to the men and women who fought a desperate struggle against occupation, as well as the German and Italian fascist security forces unleashed against them.

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735279735

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A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War. In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four young Piedmontese women who joined the Resistance, living secretively in the mountains surrounding Turin. They were not alone. Between 1943 and 1945, as the Allies battled their way north, thousands of men and women throughout occupied Italy rose up and fought to liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. What made the partisan war all the more extraordinary was the number of women in its ranks. The bloody civil war that ensued across the country pitted neighbour against neighbour, and brought out the best and worst in Italian society. The courage shown by the partisans was exemplary, and eventually bound them together as a coherent fighting force. And the women's contribution was invaluable—they fought, carried messages and weapons, provided safe houses, laid mines and took prisoners. Ada's house deep in the mountains became a meeting place and refuge for many of them. The death rattle of Mussolini's two decades of Fascist rule—with its corruption, greed and anti-Semitism—was unrelentingly violent and brutal, but for the partisan women it was also a time of camaraderie and equality, pride and optimism. They would prove, to themselves and to the world, what resolve, tenacity and above all exceptional courage could achieve.

Author : Henry Hitch Adams
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0809434237

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Italy at War by Henry Hitch Adams Pdf

In 1934, the Italians who shouted "Duce! Duce!" did not know their leader would take them into world war and national ruin.

Author : Maria De Blasio Wilhelm,Enzo Marino
Publisher : Ishi Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 4871873471

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The Other Italy the Italian Resistance in World War II by Maria De Blasio Wilhelm,Enzo Marino Pdf

The Italian Resistance in World War II began as a spontaneous rebellion against Nazi oppression in the days following Italy's unconditional surrender to the Allies on September 8, 1943. The story of the underground battle of the Italians against the Nazis and Fascisti, largely unknown outside Italy, was, unlike the French Resistance, a spontaneous city-by-city, region-by-region uprising. This book traces the growth of the wartime resistance from its birth in 1943 against overwhelming odds to its dramatic triumph two years later. Here are Neapolitan youngsters fighting German tanks; patriots operating an underground radio station inside Nazi occupied Florence; Romans ambushing a Nazi patrol; mountain fighters blasting enemy convoys; peasants who hid partisan and Allied escapees; and priests and nuns who outfoxed Nazi and Fascist patrols. It was a moving episode, a lesson for all of us who live so easily in the kind of society dreamed of by the partisans. This is a story of courage, sacrifice and individual heroism - a noble episode in the history of a great people. "A valuable contribution to the history of World War II, which was as much a "peoples war" - a revolution - as it was a gigantic struggle between the armies of the Allies and those of the Axis powers. The book demonstrates with a wealth of facts and anecdotes drawn from survivors and memoirs that given a cause to fight for the Italians are as capable of reckless courage as the bravest. And in Word War II their cause was freedom from the Fascism that had crushed their civil rights for a generation that dominated them after the Italo-Allied Armistice of September 1943. "Particularly valuable are Mrs. Wilhelm's chapters on the often ambiguous role of the Catholic Church; the participation of Jews in the armed resistance; the price they paid in deportations to the German concentration camps, where most of the 3000 Jews perished; and finally the important role of the women of Italy in the liberation as Resistance fighters."

Author : Marshal Pietro Badoglio
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786257413

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Italy In The Second World War: Memories And Documents by Marshal Pietro Badoglio Pdf

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 : Claudio Pavone
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781687772

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A Civil War by Claudio Pavone Pdf

A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, as a young man, took part in the struggle against Mussolini’s fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone’s masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period and its continuing importance for the nation’s identity. Pavone casts a sober eye on his protagonists’ ethical and ideological motivations. He uncovers a multilayered conflict, in which class antagonisms, patriotism and political ideals all played a part. A clear understanding of this complexity allows him to explain many details of the post-war transition, as well as the legacy of the Resistance for modern Italy. In addition to being a monumental work of scholarship, A Civil War is a folk history, capturing events, personalities and attitudes that were on the verge of slipping entirely out of recollection to the detriment of Italy’s understanding of itself and its past.

Author : Charles T. O'Reilly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0739101951

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Forgotten Battles by Charles T. O'Reilly Pdf

Italy's War of Liberation takes issue with the apparently prevalent attitude among Allied commanders during World War II that the Italian military was ineffective. O'Reilly recounts the little-known story of the significant contribution made by the Italian military during the Italian Campaign, including the contribution of relatively unacknowledged Italian Partisan formations that fought in Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Despite the fact that Italians fought on the front lines with the British and American soldiers, and despite the service of the Italian Navy and Air Force, the Allies refused repeated Italian pleas for more involvement in combat. This book not only attempts to correct the record of military history by illustrating the ways in which the Italians were underutilized by the Allies, but it also serves to paint a fair portrait of the Italian military's substantial efforts to defeat Hitler and eradicate Fascism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363762

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Italy and the Second World War by Anonim Pdf

Italy in the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives brings together fifteen international scholars to offer new contributions to the study of Italian war experience, both civilian and military, during the Second World War.

Author : Kenneth E. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OSU:32435009242553

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The War Against Germany and Italy by Kenneth E. Hunter Pdf

Author : Robert Katz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Rome (Italy)
ISBN : 0743216423

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The Battle for Rome by Robert Katz Pdf

This landmark work draws on newly released documents and firsthand accounts to tell the dramatic story of Rome's dark days during the German occupation. 8-pages of photos. 2 maps.

Author : Miguel Alonso,Alan Kramer,Javier Rodrigo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030276485

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Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945 by Miguel Alonso,Alan Kramer,Javier Rodrigo Pdf

This groundbreaking book explores the interpretative potential and analytical capacity of the concept ‘fascist warfare’. Was there a specific type of war waged by fascist states? The concept encompasses not only the practice of violence at the front, but also war culture, the relationship between war and the fascist project, and the construction of the national community. Starting with the legacy of the First World War and using a transnational approach, this collection presents case studies of fascist regimes at war, spanning Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Francoist Spain, Croatia, and Imperial Japan. Themes include the idea of rapid warfare as a symbol of fascism, total war, the role of modern technology, the transfer of war cultures between regimes, anti-partisan warfare as a key feature, and the contingent nature and limits of fascist warfare.

Author : Bastian Matteo Scianna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030265243

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The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943 by Bastian Matteo Scianna Pdf

The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the domestic and international arena during the Cold War. Linking operational military history with memory studies, this book revises our understanding of the Italian Army in the Second World War.

Author : Philip Morgan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191578755

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The Fall of Mussolini by Philip Morgan Pdf

The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime. Looking beyond Mussolini's initial fall from power, Morgan examines how the Italian people responded to the invasion, occupation, and division of their country by Nazi German and Anglo-American forces - and how crucial the experience of this period was in shaping Italy's post-war sense of nationhood and transition to democracy.

Author : Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137281203

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The Italian Army in Slovenia by Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi Pdf

This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the army's ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis.

Author : Nicola Cacciatore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031286827

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Italian Partisans and British Forces in the Second World War by Nicola Cacciatore Pdf

This book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945. The core of the argument challenges many assumptions that are today still present both in Italian and in the Anglophone historiography on the subject. In current historiography, the debate is still ongoing as to whether the British were a hostile force to the Italian Resistance, trying to weaken it to better control it, or a genuine and committed ally. Instead of a clear-cut and artificial dichotomy between the 'Italians' and the 'British' this book posits the idea that lines were often blurred, and relations existed on a scale that included lots of grey and overlapping areas. Thanks to an original approach that examines the Italo-British interaction from a point of view as close as possible to the ‘action’, it proposes a new interpretation based on the way the British image was cast in Italy. Politics is left in the background in favour of an analysis of the concrete problems and difficulties that Italians and the British had to face when working together and how these processes influenced the image of Great Britain in Italy in the following decades. This produces a final interpretation that enriches current historiography and pushes forward our understanding of the relationship between Italian partisans and British forces.