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  • The Italian Army and the First World War

    by John Gooch ...
    Series series Armies of the Great War
    This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still controversial defeat of the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Unification of Italy

    by John Gooch ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    John Gooch's book is a concise introduction to the unification of the Italian states and the legacy of this union. Starting in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the book goes on to explain how, despite the causes of disunity, these Italian states shared racial, linguistic, and cultural factors, which led to their eventual political unity. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Mussolini's War

    Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943

    by John Gooch ...
    A remarkable new history evoking the centrality of Italy to World War II, outlining the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign.While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Prospect of War

    The British Defence Policy 1847-1942

    by John Gooch ...
    First Published in 1981. The essays collected together in this volume deal, for the most part, with the two themes which have seemed to the author the most significant and the most intriguing in the passage made by the military in Britain from the Victorian age to World War. The major theme is that of the transition of military strategy and policy from a preoccupation with the limited, though by ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Plans of War

    The General Staff and British Military Strategy c. 1900-1916

    by John Gooch ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History
    This book’s contribution to the discussion on the origin’s of the First World War is a pioneering study of both the British General Staff and the evolution of military strategy in the period immediately prior to the war. It describes the development of the General Staff, Britain’s agency for strategic planning, and goes on to give an account of its role in devising strategy. Problems are examined ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Armies in Europe

    by John Gooch ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History
    This book, originally published in 1980, is a study of the nature and purposes of peace-time military organization in Europe, and of the characteristics and outcome of the major wars fought during these years. It charts the rise of mass armies and the role of conscription as a socializing agent and a military instrument, as well as discussing the growing involvement of society in war both as agent ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Strategy and the Social Sciences

    Issues in Defence Policy

    by John Gooch ...
    This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Boer War

    Direction, Experience and Image

    Edited by John Gooch ...
    Series series Military History and Policy
    This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Airpower

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by John Gooch ...
    The nine contributors to this volume study the rapid development of airpower during the twentieth century as well as the methodological problems involved in assessing such change. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Military Deception and Strategic Surprise!

    Edited by John Gooch, Amos Perlmutter ...
    Published in 2004, Military Deception and Strategic Surprise! is a valuable contribution to the field of Military and Strategic Studies. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War

    Edited by John Gooch ...
    Success or defeat in the Second World War turned less on winning or losing battles than on winning or losing campaigns. This volume reassesses the importance of seven major campaigns for the outcome of the war. The authors examine a wide range of factors which influence success or failure including strategic planning, logistics, combat performance, command and military intelligence. This book ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Mussolini's War

    Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943

    by John Gooch ...
    Narrated by Bruce Mann ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 14 min

    While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, 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 ... Read more

    $29.99 USD