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‘This objective study is of the greatest interest to historians and performs a valuable service ... This is an important book.’ British Army Review Richard Lamb, one of the few Italian-speaking officers in the Eighth Army, took part in the campaign in Italy, fighting with the Royal Italian Army. Here, he describes Italy from Mussolini’s fall until the final victory, drawing on captured Mussolini documents and on British, Italian and Vatican archives — many of them never used before. In particular, he spotlights an unbroken sequence of German infamies. He reveals how, to abort Churchill’s plan to open the Dardanelles, German troops massacred in cold blood many thousands of surrendering Italians in the Aegean islands. He details the deportation of Italian Jews to Auschwitz, the wholesale killing of Italian hostages, and the fate of 600,000 Italian prisoners of war sent to labour camps within Germany. Had it not been for Mussolini’s puppet government at Salò, Lamb argues, Italy would have been treated worse even than Poland. Richard Lamb brings to light some important controversies. Why did the Allies not land unopposed in Italy before the Germans poured over the Brenner Pass? Wou

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Author

Richard Lamb

Language

EN

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.1 / 5 (125 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14