Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War: Defending and Forging Empires

Stefano Marcuzzi

ISBN 10: 110883129X / ISBN 13: 9781108831291

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020

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348 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War: Defending and Forging Empires
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110883129X
• ISBN 13: 9781108831291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.83 kilograms

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Synopsis

This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues – war aims, war strategy and peace-making – and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.

About the Author

Stefano Marcuzzi is a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University College Dublin, an analyst in Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defense College Foundation, and an external fellow at Boston University.