A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of September 1943
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A Nation Collapses revises the traditional understanding of a critical moment in the history of World War II: the collapse of the Italian fascist regime and Italy's unconditional surrender in September 1943. Drawing on mostly unpublished documents, the book analyses the secret negotiations between Italy and Britain before the overthrow of Mussolini in July 1943 and finds that both parties negotiated in bad faith and with a great deal of duplicity. The Italians therefore both underestimated the extent of the Allies' strategic commitment in Italy and promised their conquerors a degree of military assistance which they were in no condition to deliver. The situation disintegrated into a civil war as the Anglo-American military government which controlled southern Italy invaded the German-occupied north. Already traumatized by unconditional surrender, Italy now endured a civil war waged by foreign powers on both sides for twenty long and brutal months.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521591996
ISBN13:9780521591997
Release Date:January 2000
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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A seminal, ground breaking work of historical significance.
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In A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender Of September 1943, Elena Agarossi draws on a massive, mostly unpublished, collection of documents in her analysis of the course secret negotiations between Italy and Britain that immediately preceded the overthrow of Mussolini in July 1943 and finds that both parties negotiated in bad faith and with a great deal of duplicity. Misjudging both Nazi Germany and the Allies' strategic commitment in Italy, and promising the Allies a degree of military assistance they were in no condition to deliver, the Italian army swiftly fell into disarray with hundreds of thousands of troops being rounded up by the Germans and interned in concentration camps. As the Allied troops in control of southern Italy advanced into the German-occupied north, Italy (ravaged by a mounting civil war) became a battlefield for the opposing armies for twenty long and bloody months. A Nation Collapses is a seminal, ground breaking work of historical significance for both political and military studies of the European Theater in World War II.
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