Read more
Drawing on a broad range of new archival material, Stefano Marcuzzi analyses the British strategy of imperial defence and the Italian strategy of imperial expansion within the context of World War I, the Peace Conference and the Fiume crisis.
List of contents
List of Figures; List of Maps; Introduction; Part I. Making the Anglo-Italian Entente (1914-1915): 1. Context; 2. Traditional Friendship; 3. Crumbling Principles; 4. Pushing Friendship into Alliance; 5. The Contested Treaty; Part II. Integrating Italy into the Triple Entente (Spring 1915 - Summer 1917): 6. Context; 7. Turning Papers into Policies: the Implementation of the London Treaty; 8. Dealing with Recalcitrant Allies: Shaping Italy's War; 9. Peripheral Competition; 10. Shaping Allied Grand Strategy; 11. Italy's Empire Project Accepted; Part III. The Forked Road to Victory and Peace (Autumn 1917 - Summer 1919): 12. Context; 13. Clash of Responsibilities: the Caporetto Crisis; 14. Response to Military Emergencies: Keeping Italy Alive; 15. Re-Shaping Allied Grand Strategy; 16. Propaganda as a Strategy; 17. Divided at the Finish Line; 18. Versailles 1919: Italy's Empire Project Repudiated; 19. Epilogue: Bloody Christmas in Fiume; 20. Conclusions; Bibliography and Sources; Index.
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.
Summary
Drawing on a broad range of new archival material, Stefano Marcuzzi analyses the British strategy of imperial defence and the Italian strategy of imperial expansion within the context of World War I, the Peace Conference and the Fiume crisis.
Foreword
Reassesses British and Italian grand strategies from 1914 to 1920: including the war, the peace conference and the Fiume crisis.
