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Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

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Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

This book documents the experiences of the Italian armed Fascist militia, the Camicie Nere (Blackshirts), from the Italian–Ethiopian war of 1935–36, through the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II. It explores their origins, development, recruitment, training, conditions of service, uniforms and equipment, battle experience, political and ideological motivation. The Blackshirt legions were raised under army control from 1928, and were employed in 1933 in Libya in counterinsurgency operations against the Senussi tribes; from 1935 in Italy's war against Ethiopia; and during the Spanish Civil War. Following the outbreak of World War II, the Blackshirts fought in North Africa, Greece, Croatia, on the Eastern Front and finally in Italy itself following the Allied invasion.

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1472818954

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World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

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World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage and assassinations, the groups continued to grow until spring 1944 when a remarkable, unified partisan command structure was created. Working in close co-ordination with the Allies, they received British SOE and American OSS liaison teams as well as supplies of weapons. The German response was ferocious, and in autumn 1944, as the Allied advance stalled, the SS and Italian RSI looked to eradicate the partisans once and for all. But when the Allies made their final breakthrough in the last weeks of the war the partisans rose again to exact their revenge on the retreating Wehrmacht. From an expert on Italian military history in World War II, this work provides a comprehensive guide to the men and women who fought a desperate struggle against occupation, as well as the German and Italian fascist security forces unleashed against them.

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1472808959

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9781472808950

Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

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Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from 1941 through to 1943. Their performance has been unfairly criticised over the years – the best units of the Italian Army were equal to those of the British and Germans – but they suffered from a lack of mobility and poor equipment that made it impossible for them to meet mobile British forces on anywhere near equal terms. Despite this, the Italian Army went through many changes through the period, with the introduction of a variety of elite units – armoured, mechanised and parachute divisions that did much to restore the fighting reputation of the Italian soldier in the desert war. Their German allies belatedly acknowledged this with the redesignation of Panzerarmee Afrika as 1st Italian Army in February 1943. This title details recruitment, organisation and experience of the Italian forces in this theatre, casting new light on a force whose fighting power and capabilities have been unfairly ignored and maligned for too long.

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144

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780968574

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9781780968575

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

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Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

This volume assesses the formidable Special Forces fielded by Italy's navy and air force in World War II. Italian Navy Special Forces were particularly active and respected in the Mediterranean, where 10th Motor-Torpedo Boat Flotilla used frogmen, 'two-man torpedoes' and explosive ram-boats. The Italian Air Force formed a special commando unit, ADRA, before the 1943 surrender; it was tasked with attacking Allied airfields and communications in North Africa. Men from ADRA and Army paratroopers formed the new 'Folgore' Regiment, which also continued to fight alongside German forces until 1945. In both cases, the pro-Allied Italian forces also formed 'mirror' units to fight alongside US and British forces, including the Recce Squadron 'F'. Featuring rare photographs and specially commissioned artwork, this book tells the story of the little-known elite forces fielded by Italy's navy and air force in World War II, some of whose successors remain in service with today's Italian armed forces.

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150

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780963726

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9781780963723

Internal exile in Fascist Italy

History and representations of confino

By: Piero Garofalo,Elizabeth Leake,Dana Renga

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Internal exile in Fascist Italy

History and representations of confino

By: Piero Garofalo,Elizabeth Leake,Dana Renga

This study offers a clear, concise introduction to the Fascist-era practice, know as confino, of exiling antifascist dissidents to parts of Italy far from the dissidents’ homes, often on islands or in tiny inland villages. The book is organised in two sections. Part one provides a case study of the political colony on the island of Lipari and a historical overview of internal exile. Part two focuses on representations of confinement in literature and film. It examines the varieties of self-expression (e.g. memoirs, letters and literature) used by prisoners to describe their experiences, investigates how filmmakers interpret these events, places and people, and explores how film portrays the repression of homosexuality. A timely examination of the birthplace of European federalism, the book also contributes to our understanding of the legacy of confinement from both national and European perspectives.

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Manchester University Press

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152613389X

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9781526133892

The History of Italian Cinema

A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century

By: Gian Piero Brunetta

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The History of Italian Cinema

A Guide to Italian Film from Its Origins to the Twenty-first Century

By: Gian Piero Brunetta

Discusses renowned masters including Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini, as well as directors lesser known outside Italy like Dino Risi and Ettore Scola. The author examines overlooked Italian genre films such as horror movies, comedies, and Westerns, and he also devotes attention to neglected periods like the Fascist era. He illuminates the epic scope of Italian filmmaking, showing it to be a powerful cultural force in Italy and leaving no doubt about its enduring influence abroad. Encompassing the social, political, and technical aspects of the craft, the author recreates the world of Italian cinema.

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Princeton University Press

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0691119880

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9780691119885

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

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1472806387

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Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

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Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

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Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

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Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

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By: Piero Crociani,Pier Paolo Battistelli

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1849088586

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World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

By: Pier Paolo Battistelli,Piero Crociani

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

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Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

By: Christiansen, Keith

Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300199465

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention, and Fantasìa

By: Sharon Fermor,Piero Di Cosimo

This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461 1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor presents new solutions to questions the function and iconography that have puzzled commentators hitherto, and examines Piero's approach to pictorial composition and to gesture that contribute to the distinctiveness of his oeuvre. Of crucial importance in this fresh evaluation of Piero's career is the author's explanation of the strategies employed by Vasari for his Life of Piero, written in the mid sixteenth-century. By exposing the misconceptions many still influential today that resulted from Vasari's account, she reveals that even Piero's most unusual paintings on mythological themes are in fact coherent and meaningful compositions, and not the product of an isolated eccentric at odds with the artistic community of his time.

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Reaktion Books

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0948462361

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

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Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

By: Carlo Bertelli

Includes a biography of the Italian painter, compares his work with that of other artists of his time, discusses his mathematic and geometric theories, and provides a complete catalog of his work

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0300057032

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Book's by Piero Crociani

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

Internal exile in Fascist Italy

Internal exile in Fascist Italy

The History of Italian Cinema

The History of Italian Cinema

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45

World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Piero Di Cosimo

Piero Di Cosimo

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

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