Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi: 2 books
The Italian Army in Slovenia
Strategies of Antipartisan Repression, 1941–1943
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the army's ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis.
Mussolini and the Salò Republic, 1943–1945
The Failure of a Puppet Regime
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic. Set up in 1943 by Hitler in the town of Salò on Lake Garda and ruled by Mussolini, this makeshift government was a last-ditch effort to ensure the survival of Fascism, ending with the murder of Mussolini by partisans in 1945....