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The Italian Army in Slovenia : strategies of antipartisan repression, 1941-1943 / Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi ; translated by Elizabeth Burke and Anthony Majanlahti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osti Guerrazzi, Amedeo, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Italian and Italian American studies
- Standardized Title:
- Esercito italiano in Slovenia, 1941-1943. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italy. Regio Esercito.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- History.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Slovenia.
- Italy. Regio Esercito--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 196 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- In April of 1941, most of modern-day Slovenia was invaded by the Axis powers, with Italy occupying Ljubljana and most other lands to the south and the west. Now available for the first time in English, this book is a vivid and often disturbing account of that occupation. Beginning with the decision of the Fascist regime to annex Slovenia as an Italian province, it moves from the Fascists' naïve attempts to Italianize the population, through local resistance efforts and the brutal reactions against civilians, to the army's spectacular tactical and organizational failures and its ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis in 1943. Drawing on largely unstudied documents from Italian military archives, this study reintroduces us to a frequently misunderstood chapter of the savage history of World War II, one with repercussions that continue in the historical memory of Italians and Slovenians even today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Annexion 19
- 2 Ambrosio 31
- 3 Roatta 51
- 4 Summer 1942 89
- 5 Gambara 115
- 6 Memory and Oblivion 121.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian: L'esercito italiano in Slovenia, 1941-1943 : strategie di repressione antipartigiana. Roma : Viella, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137281197
- 1137281197
- OCLC:
- 855351544
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