ABSTRACT
From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, France, Greece, the Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East. As a junior partner to Nazi Germany, only entering the war in June 1940, Italy is often seen as a relatively minor player in World War II. However, this book challenges much of the existing scholarship by arguing that Fascist Italy played a significant and distinct role in shaping international relations between 1935 and 1945, creating a Fascist decade of war.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
part I|58 pages
The international dimension
chapter 3|15 pages
Repubblica Sociale Italiana and Spain
chapter 4|12 pages
A new deal for Italy
part II|50 pages
A fascist warfare?
chapter 7|12 pages
‘The despicable fighting qualities of the Wops’
chapter 8|12 pages
From occupiers to comrades-in-arms
part III|60 pages
Ideology and propaganda for the empire at war
chapter 9|13 pages
A new navalism for a Fascist empire
chapter 10|15 pages
Revisiting the ‘colonial hypothesis’
chapter 11|16 pages
What ‘new order’?
chapter 12|14 pages
Radio propaganda during the war
part IV|26 pages
A decade of war?