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Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43 (Warrior) by Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani, Steve Noon is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Focusing on the Italian Army in North Africa during World War II, which fought alongside the Afrikakorps under Rommel versus Montgomery and Patton, this title combines with the previous Warrior series books on the subject (and other Osprey titles) to complete the picture of the War in the Desert. 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 criticized over the years - the best units of the Italian Army were equal to those of the British and Germans - but they suffered from a lack of mobility and poor equipment that made it impossible for them to meet mobile British forces on anywhere near equal terms. Despite this, the Italian Army went through many changes through the period, with the introduction of a variety of elite units - armoured, mechanised and parachute divisions that did much to restore the fighting reputation of the Italian soldier in the Desert War. Their German allies belatedly acknowledged this with the redesi

Who reads Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43 (Warrior)?

Author

Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani, Steve Noon

Publisher

Osprey Publishing

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780968568

Category

history

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (76 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14