Morale and the Italian Army During the First World War

A study of how the Italian army managed morale and troops responded to its policies during the First World War.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Army Policies and Morale: 2. Leadership, command culture and organisation; 3. Incentivising high morale; 4. Discipline; 5. Combat readiness; Part II. Italians under Arms: 6. Endurance: experience and the negotiation of identity; 7. Consent and compliance; 8. Refusal: indiscipline, protest and nervous collapse; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Vanda Wilcox completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford in 2006 before moving to Rome, where she now teaches at John Cabot University. She has published on Italian military leadership, training and battlefield performance as well as the popular experience and memory of the First World War in Italy. A member of the International Society for First World War Studies since 2003, she is now working on the imperial and colonial aspects of Italy's war experience.

Summary

The first book-length study of morale in the Italian army during the First World War. Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war.

Product details

• Authors: Vanda Wilcox, Vanda (John Cabot University Wilcox, Wilcox Vanda
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781316610152
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61015-2
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories; Cambridge Military Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Italy, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater