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

    by Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 191 - Elite
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43

    by Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 169 - Warrior
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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

    by Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli ...
    Series Book 191 - Elite
    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani ...
    Series Book 207 - Elite
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani ...
    Series Book 207 - Elite
    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani ...
    Series Book 144 - Warrior
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Italian Blackshirt 1935–45

    by Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani ...
    Series Book 144 - Warrior
    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.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 ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Sacrifice on the Steppe

    The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943

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  • Saving Italy

    The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

    by Robert M. Edsel ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom BrokawWhen Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the ... Read more

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  • The Venus Fixers

    The Remarkable Story of the Allied Monuments Officers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

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