War in Italy, 1943-1945 by Richard Lamb

War in Italy, 1943-1945 by Richard Lamb

Richard Lamb, one of the few Italian-speaking officers in the British Army during World War II, has relied in part on newly opened Italian archives to present a surprising and unprecedented history of the war in Italy from Mussolini's fall until the final victory. Chronicling an unbroken sequence of Nazi infamies, Lamb reveals how German troops massacred thousands of surrendering Italians in the Aegean islands, deported Italian Jews to Auschwitz, and slaughtered Italian hostages and POWs. Had it not been for Mussolini's frenzied attempts to protect his countrymen, Italy would have been treated even worse than Poland. Lamb answers important and controversial questions, such as why the Allies did not land unopposed in Italy before the Germans poured over the Brenner Pass, and why Pope Pius XII did not take a stronger stand on behalf of Jews and the victims of the Ardeatine massacre. He details Anthony Edens opposition to an aid for Italian partisans, and the disastrous order form the War Office that British POWs should stay in their camps. He unfolds the extraordinary stories of the Cossack settlement in the Fruili, the attempted annexation of northern Italy by de Gaulle and Tito, the contributions of the Royalist Army to the Allied cause, the Italian civilians who helped Allied POWs escape, and the German generals who failed to obey Hitler's order to "scorch" all of Northern Italy. War in Italy will long remain the most complete account ever published of one of the most terrible dramas of World War II.

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ISBN 13	9780306806889
ISBN 10	0306806886
Titel	War in Italy, 1943-1945
Autor	Richard Lamb
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Hachette Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-03-22
Seitenanzahl	368
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