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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vanda wilcox”
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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

    $24.99 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • 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

    $128.99 CAD

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  • The Force of Destiny

    A History of Italy Since 1796

    by Christopher Duggan ...
    The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. The Force of Destiny, Christopher Duggan's immensely enjoyable new book, lays waste to this idea. While sharing everyone's enthusiasm for Italy as a place, he strongly distinguishes this ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A History of Contemporary Italy

    1943-80

    by Paul Ginsborg ...
    In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Mussolini's War

    Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

    by John Gooch ...
    WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World WarWhile staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    by Christopher Duggan ...
    Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • 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

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • 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

    $5.99 CAD