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Hitler's Italian Allies : Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime and the War Of, 1940-1943 by MacGregor Knox (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521790476
ISBN-139780521790475
eBay Product ID (ePID)1712786
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameHitler's Italian Allies : Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime and the War Of, 1940-1943
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
SubjectEurope / Germany, Europe / Italy, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, World / European, Europe / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
AuthorMacgregor Knox
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN00-023706
Reviews"MacGregor Knox's innovative, critical, and thoroughly documented works have thrown light both on Mussolini's dictatorship and its wars, and on the nature of German military traditions and the sources of the terrifying effectiveness of the Nazi armies. This volume offers a unique, sustained, and brilliant comparative analysis that stresses the centrality of military institutions and of the Great War in the genesis of the Fascist and National Socialist movements and regimes." -Giorgio Rochat, University of Turin, Italy, "Knox tells the story clearly and concisely and his analysis of the weaknesses of the Italian military is likely to convince anyone who has witnessed the workings of Italian society...Knox's book poses interesting questions and convincingly critiques the operations of Italy's pre-war military establishment." -International History Review, MacGregor Knoxs innovative, critical, and thoroughly documented works have thrown light both on Mussolinis dictatorship and its wars, and on the nature of German military traditions and the sources of the terrifying effectiveness of the Nazi armies. This volume offers a unique, sustained, and brilliant comparative analysis that stresses the centrality of military institutions and of the Great War in the genesis of the Fascist and National Socialist movements and regimes. Giorgio Rochat, University of Turin, Italy, "This concise analytical study will be of much value to readers who are interested in the military relationship between Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany during the period when they were allies." -The Historian, "A necessary addition to World War II...Excellent... leaves the reader wanting more anecdotal information and first-hand accounts from officers and enlisted men." -The Ocala Star-Banner (FL), "MacGregor Knox has constructed an ambitious and compelling comparative analysis of the roots of Fascist and Nazi destructive dynamism of a kind which few scholars could have attempted. It is a splendid achievement." -Sir Ian Kershaw, University of Sheffield, "...the survey of the Italian Armed Forces during World War II, manages to look deeply into its organizational, technological, doctrinal, and tactical shortcomings, as well as its leadership and cultural problems, while rebutting the wartime Allied propaganda. A very useful work for anyone interested in the Second World War." -NYMAS Newsletter, "A brief but cogent examination of Italy in World War II. Knox, whose talents were recently displayed in Common Destiny, a dual history of Germany and Italy, hones in here on the Italian side, his main field of expertise...This book is important to an understanding of how and why Italy collapsed during World War II." -Washington Post Book World, This superb study stands alone as a deep comparison of the origins of the rise of Fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany. Reaching back to the early nineteenth century, Knox's book provides a detailed, thoughtful, and provocative analysis of the political, economic, and social structures in both countries that led to the catastrophes of the twentieth century. In my view it is the best account of the rise to power and the relationship of both movements to the Great War that has ever been done. Lively, pointed, and gripping, the book will surely become a classic. Isabel Hull, Cornell University, "Comparative history is one of the most promising, but also most demanding avenues of modern historiography. McGregor Knox, whose fame in this field is already well established, succeeded in writing a comparative history of the German and Italian periods of dictatorship during the first half of the 20ths century. Those two volumes present a fascinating analysis, and reading them will become a 'must' for all those who are interested in that era of the dark century." -Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Bielefeld University, Germany, "MacGregor Knox's excellent study of Italy's defeat mercilessly reveals faliure on all fronts...Knox expertly paints a depressing and,, with very few exceptions, uniform picture of faliure of the Italian army, navy, and air force." -Miliary History, "This book is important to an understanding of how and why Italy collapsed during World War II." -Washington Post, "MacGregor Knox has completed a very ambitious work, which takes a fresh look at a key issue of twentieth century history, the origins and nature of European fascism. There have been many comparative studies, but no one else has done what Knox has achieved: a sustained comparison of Italian Fascism and German National Socialism in the light of the long-term peculiarities of their national histories. He succeeds admirably in explaining both their common features and their differences." -Adrian Lyttelton, Johns Hopkins University Center, Bologna
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal940.54/1245
Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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.
SynopsisThis book explains why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffectual at an activity-war-that was central to their existence. Italy's economic fragility, Mussolini's strategic-ideological fantasies, and Hitler's failure in the wider war made Italy's ruin inevitable, but did not determine its peculiarly undignified character. Hitler's Italian Allies demonstrates the extent to which Italian military culture-a concept with applications far beyond Fascist Italy-made humiliation inescapable. It offers a striking portrait of a military and industrial establishment largely unable to imagine modern war and of a regime that failed miserably in mobilizing the nation's resources. Above all, it explains why the armed forces, despite the distinguished performance of a few elite units, dissolved prematurely and almost without resistance-in stark contrast to the grim fight to the last cartridge of Hitler's army and the fanatical faithfulness unto death of the troops of Imperial Japan., Fascist 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., This book tries to understand why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffective at warfare. The book offers an innovative analytical cross section of the Italian war effort, from society and culture, through politics and war production, to strategy operations and tactics, and demonstrates the extent to which Italian military culture made humiliation inescapable.
LC Classification NumberD763.I8 K57 2000
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