Mussolini and His Generals - The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940

Informationen zum Autor John Gooch is Professor of International History at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include Army, State and Society in Italy, 1870-1915 (1989) and, with Eliot A. Cohen, Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War (1990, 2006). Klappentext Study of the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy, 1922 to 1940. Zusammenfassung The first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from 1922 to 1940. John Gooch shows that Mussolini's generals and admirals bore a share of the blame for defeat through policies that all too often rested on incompetence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The beginning of the Fascist era, 1922-1925; 2. Domestic checks and international balances,1925-1929; 3. Military constraints and diplomatic restraint, 1929-1932; 4. Moving towards aggression, 1932-1934; 5. The trial of force: Abyssinian 1935; 6. War, arms and the Axis, 1936-1937; 7. The year of true 'realism', 1938; 8. 'Speak of peace and prepare for war', 1939-1940; Conclusion; Appendices.

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• Authors: John Gooch, John (University of Leeds) Gooch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2007
• EAN: 9780521856027
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85602-7
• No. of pages: 666
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories (
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