EAN: 9780141980294

MUSSOLINIS WAR - JOHN GOOCH KARTONIERT (TB)

WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE
YEAR 2020 From an acclaimed military historian  the definitive account of Italy's experience of
the Second World War While 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. 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. 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. This remarkable book rightly shows the centrality of Italy to the war 
outlining the brief rise and disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. 'It 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 Guardian

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780141980294

Produktinformationen zur 9780141980294