A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War
John Gooch is one of the world's leading writers on Italy and the two world wars. His books include Mussolini and His Generals and The Italian Army and the First World War. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leeds. In 2010 the President of Italy appointed him Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta' Italiana.
John Gooch knows more about 20th-century Italy than perhaps anyone
else in Britain ... He paints a record of appalling brutality, epic
incompetence ... There are echoes of the madness of Benito
Mussolini in outpourings that we hear daily from several world
capitals, among them Washington. Listen, and be afraid.
*Sunday Times*
A meticulous, skilful account ... it is hard to imagine a finer
account, both of the sweep of Italy's wars, and of the characters
caught up in them.
*Guardian*
An important book, adding much to our knowledge of Italy's baleful
contribution to the conflicts of the 1930s and 1940s ... a work of
meticulous scholarship.
*The Times*
Lucid ... diligently researched ... an exceptionally detailed
portrait.
*The Spectator*
Excellent ... This detailed military history shows the long arc of
strategic ineptitude.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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