This book explores the motives, preparation, objectives, contact and consequences of Italy's war of 1940, which ended the country's role as a great power and reduced it to the status of first among Germany's satellites. What Professor Knox demonstrates more clearly than any previous biographer or historian is the limits of Mussolini's power. In particular, thanks to exhaustive research in the relevant archives, he has been able to throw important new light on Mussolini's relations with his military advisers and commanders. His scholarship is first-class, and for once a publisher's blurb does not exaggerate in claiming that his book is 'superbly written'.
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'For officers interested in questions as diverse as military incompetence and the formation of national strategy, this book will repay many times over the hours spent reading it.' Marine Corps Gazette
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This book explores the motives, preparation, objectives, contact and consequences of Italy's war of 1940, which ended the country's role as a great power and reduced it to the status of first among Germany's satellites. What Professor Knox demonstrates more clearly than any previous biographer or historian is the limits of Mussolini's power.
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Defeat is not an orphan.,
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This review is from: Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War (Paperback)
One of the very few books on Mussolini that shows the true causes of Italy's failure in her war aims during World War II. MacGregor Knox does not fall into the trap that so many other historians show when retelling the total and abject failure of Italy's land, sea and air forces during the last world war. This is not simply a retelling of a dictator leading his country to ruin.The poor leadership of Italy's military leaders are shown in full light (Marshal Badoglio's vascillations, General Graziani's timidity and Admiral Cagnari's fabian tatics). The book also shows Mussolini's problems with the monarchy, the church, and the unwillingless of the Italian people themselves to be drawn into another world war. A must read for anyone who wants to read an unblemished account of Italy's performance in the last world war.
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Best Italian War History,
This review is from: Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War (Paperback)
Quite simply, this was the best Italian war history I have ever encountered. I am admittedly not done, but thus far it is absolutely fascinating, well written, and brilliant, and my peeks ahead suggest the rest of the research is equally so. While Italian armoured histories available on amazon and Bosworth's works are interesting, I found this the best I have read.
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This is one of the most thorough accounts of Mussolini and the Italy's foray into the World War. The author provides an almost overly thorough analysis with literally almost every sentence packing maximum information punch. If you want to have a one book summary of how Italy became involved in war in Europe this is a great start. It glazes over some areas but when it comes to the time period covered this literally is a day by day and event by event account of the war. Top notch analysis provides wonderful diplomatic discussion and very clear conclusions. For those interested in diplomatic history this is a great book to take a look at. I have read over thirty books related to Mussolini and world war II and this is easily in the top three.
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Duce politics. It is a commonplace among educated Italians that "Mussolini was indeed a dictator, but no bloody-handed murderer {sanguinario} like Hitler." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prima offensiva britannica, principio della fine, azioni navali, della disfatta, condotta italiana della guerra, seaborne coal, nella seconda guerra mondiale, passo romano, estera fascista, parallel war, contraband control, military subordinates, informant report, naval high command, unsigned memorandum, staff memorandum, territorial objectives, world mastery, service chiefs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visconti Prasca, North Africa, United States, Great Britain, Palazzo Venezia, Mersa Matruh, Sea Lion, World War, Comando Supremo, Soviet Union, Regia Aeronautica, East Africa, Middle East, War Cabinet, Victor Emmanuel, Fascist Italy, British Somaliland, Council of Ministers, National Socialist, Regio Esercito, South Tyrol, Grand Council of Fascism, Ministry of Popular Culture, Pact of Steel, Tripartite Pact New!
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Duce politics. It is a commonplace among educated Italians that "Mussolini was indeed a dictator, but no bloody-handed murderer {sanguinario} like Hitler." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prima offensiva britannica, principio della fine, azioni navali, della disfatta, condotta italiana della guerra, seaborne coal, nella seconda guerra mondiale, passo romano, estera fascista, parallel war, contraband control, military subordinates, informant report, naval high command, unsigned memorandum, staff memorandum, territorial objectives, world mastery, service chiefs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visconti Prasca, North Africa, United States, Great Britain, Palazzo Venezia, Mersa Matruh, Sea Lion, World War, Comando Supremo, Soviet Union, Regia Aeronautica, East Africa, Middle East, War Cabinet, Victor Emmanuel, Fascist Italy, British Somaliland, Council of Ministers, National Socialist, Regio Esercito, South Tyrol, Grand Council of Fascism, Ministry of Popular Culture, Pact of Steel, Tripartite Pact New!
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- The Second World War, Volume 2: Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill on 8 pages
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- The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich by Klaus Hildebrand on 4 pages
- The Third Reich by Klaus Hildebrand on 4 pages
- Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 by Robert O. Paxton on 4 pages
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- Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: Comparisons and Contrasts by Richard Bessel on page 60, page 129, and Back Matter
- The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 by MacGregor Knox in Front Matter, and Back Flap
- Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany by MacGregor Knox in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Liberal and Fascist Italy: 1900-1945 (Short Oxford History of Italy) by Adrian Lyttelton on page 132, and Back Matter
- The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) by Paul K. Huth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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