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  • The Italian Empire and the Great War

    by Vanda Wilcox ...
    Series series The Greater War
    The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and its conquest of Libya in 1911–12. The Italian empire was conceived both as a system of overseas colonies under Italian sovereignty, and as an ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War

    by Vanda Wilcox ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Landscapes of the First World War

    Edited by Selena Daly, Martina Salvante, Vanda Wilcox ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict. The collection focuses on four themes: environment and climate, industrial and urban landscapes, cross-cultural encounters, and legacies of the war. The chapters cover ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples

    by David Gilmour ...
    "In this superb history of Italy and the Italian people, Gilmour celebrates a nation of bewilderingly mixed bloods and ethnicities . . . an enduring tribute." —Ian Thomas, Evening StandardOne of The Economist 's Books of the YearDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The quest... ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Italy

    Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

    by R. J. B. Bosworth ...
    With Mussolini s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth-the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English-vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth centurys most notorious political experiments. Il Duces Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitlers first among them. But as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama

    A Book of Quotations

    by Barack Obama ...
    Quotes captures your subconscious mind, which forms 90% of your total mind. The subconscious mind is the creative mind. So, when it is frequently filled with positive commands it will bring an overall change in your overall personality.Most of the quotes will hardly take you 10-20 seconds to swallow. However the message contained in these quotes are quite heavy, which will be sufficient for months ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Anatomy of the Red Brigades

    The Religious Mind-set of Modern Terrorists

    by Alessandro Orsini ...
    Translated by Sarah J. Nodes ...
    The Red Brigades were a far-left terrorist group in Italy formed in 1970 and active all through the 1980s. Infamous around the world for a campaign of assassinations, kidnappings, and bank robberies intended as a "concentrated strike against the heart of the State," the Red Brigades' most notorious crime was the kidnapping and murder of Italy's former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978. In the late ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Fall of Mussolini

    Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War

    by Philip Morgan ...
    The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime. Looking ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism (Text Only Edition)

    by Donald Sassoon ...
    In this fascinating look at the unique conjuncture of factors surrounding Il Duce’s seizure of power, eminent historian Donald Sassoon traces the political circumstances that sent Italy on a collision course with the most destructive war of the century.On the morning of 30 October 1922, Mussolini arrived in Rome to accept the premiership of a constitutional, conservative government. Within five ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • History & Uniforms 3 GB

    by Bruno Mugnai ...
    Series Book 3 - History&Uniforms
    In this book:Early Nomadic Warfare in Eastern Asia, Urban Conflicts in 13th Century Florence, The Venetian Army and Navy in the Holy League War, 1684-99(part four), Italian Units of the British Army, 1806-1814(part three), Prelude to WWI: Peacekeeping Missions in Albania 1913-1914, The Mysterious Illustrator: Artworks from a Private Collection. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Storming Heaven

    Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

    by Steve Wright ...
    'The emergence of a new wave of anti-capitalist activism on the streets of Seattle, Prague and Genoa has been accompanied by a growing interest in "autonomist Marxism." Steve Wright’s study brilliantly illuminates the history, complexity and internal debates of this tradition ... A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty ... Read more

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