Mussolini Unleashed, 1939–1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War - Hardcover

Knox, MacGregor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521239176 ISBN 13: 9780521239172

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1982

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

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.

Review:

'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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0521239176
• ISBN 13: 9780521239172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400