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A dramatic day-by-day account of the Greco-Italian war: Mussolini's ill-timed and ill-planned military adventure in Greece in 1940-41. The conflict began in October 1940, following an Italian ultimatum to the Greek Premier, Metaxus. The Italian forces who marched into the desolate mountain valleys of the Greek-Albanian border just as winter began were badly equipped and badly led, no match in that terrain for the Greek firepower and tactical expertise. The campaign lasted months, until Hitler's legions invaded the balkans from the north next Spring, to wrest a victory for which Mussolini vainly tried to take credit. The grandiose self-deception of Mussolini, imagining himself able to make war - even a minor war - independently of Hitler; the incompetence, short-sightedness and petty ambition of his generals; and the resignation and courage of the rank and file of the Italian army: all point to a theme of brutal contrast in the narrative. The author, a well-known Italian political journalist, makes use for the first time of all the documentary material on the campaign, including memoirs by the chief participants and letters and diaries of ordinary soldiers in the ranks; he has also

Author

from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher

Publisher

London, Chatto and Windus

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701113513

Subjects

History, Humanities