03396nam 22006492 450 991078009450332120151005020622.01-107-12131-00-521-74713-91-280-16237-60-511-04662-60-511-15725-80-511-30442-00-511-11893-70-511-61348-2(CKB)111056485621422(EBL)201705(OCoLC)171135117(SSID)ssj0000172436(PQKBManifestationID)11922793(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172436(PQKBWorkID)10151338(PQKB)11171530(UkCbUP)CR9780511613487(MiAaPQ)EBC201705(Au-PeEL)EBL201705(CaPaEBR)ebr10005048(CaONFJC)MIL16237(EXLCZ)9911105648562142220090914d2000|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHitler's Italian allies Royal Armed Forces, Fascist regime, and the war of 1940-43 /MacGregor Knox[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2000.1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-79047-6 0-511-01454-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: DEFEAT ... AND HUMILIATION; 1 FASCIST ITALY'S LAST WAR; 2 SOCIETY, POLITICS, REGIME, INDUSTRY; 3 MEN AND MACHINES: THE ARMED FORCES AND MODERN WARFARE; 4 STRATEGY; 5 OPERATIONS; 6 TACTICS; CONCLUSION: THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST; CHRONOLOGY; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; INDEXFascist 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.World War, 1939-1945ItalyFascismItalyItalyHistory1922-1945World War, 1939-1945Fascism940.54/1245Knox MacGregor401663UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910780094503321Hitler's Italian allies3776931UNINA