Seconda Guerra Mondiale

  seconda guerra mondiale: La Seconda guerra mondiale in 50 perché Pietro Iacopo Benzi, 2025-03-25 La Seconda guerra mondiale è stato uno degli eventi che hanno cambiato nel profondo il corso del Novecento, portando a nuovi equilibri di forza tra le nazioni e modellando per decenni le relazioni internazionali e la politica globale. A ottant'anni dalla fine del conflitto, questo volume propone un percorso in 50 domande e risposte in cui Pietro Iacopo Benzi - storico e tra i creatori della seguitissima pagina di divulgazione La Storia sul Tubo - affronta gli interrogativi chiave per comprendere ogni passaggio di questa fase complessa e cruciale: dalle cause che portano allo scoppio delle ostilità alle battaglie principali, dai piani (ed errori) strategici nei diversi teatri di guerra al ruolo di figure celebri e altre meno note ma altrettanto decisive, fino alla spaventosa conclusione con il lancio delle bombe nucleari su Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Esplorando in modo semplice, moderno ed efficace i dietro le quinte e le ragioni profonde che hanno guidato i protagonisti e gli schieramenti in campo, questo libro è uno strumento prezioso per orientarsi nel conflitto, arricchito con box e approfondimenti sui personaggi, le armi, le innovazioni tecnologiche e le operazioni militari che hanno contraddistinto una delle pagine più drammatiche della storia umana.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Storia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale vol. 2 Henri Michel, 2021-01-12T00:00:00+01:00 Mentre nel mondo si ammucchiano rovine e innumerevoli miserie colpiscono centinaia di milioni di uomini; mentre fame e malattie devastano Paesi, un tempo opulenti, e milioni di ebrei si avviano verso le camere a gas e i forni crematori, profondi sconvolgimenti agitano il globo e la popolazione civile, impotente, impara a proprie spese il significato dell’espressione “guerra totale”. Dal 1943, anno da molti definito come quello della “svolta”, al 1945, la potenza delle nazioni va assestandosi poco alla volta secondo una nuova gerarchia.
  seconda guerra mondiale: La seconda guerra mondiale. Problemi aperti Marc Ferro, 1993
  seconda guerra mondiale: The Second World War Joanna Bourke, 2001 The Second World War saw an unprecedented expansion of suffering beyond the frontlines. Of the 1,355,000 tons of bombs dropped on Germany, for instance, most fell on non-military targets, and of the 55 million people killed worldwide, two-thirds were civilians. In The Second World War: A People's History, Joanna Bourke uncovers the grim stories of death and destruction lost behind those statistics. Using diary entries, oral histories, poetry and letters home, Bourke allows the people that lived and died in the global bloodletting to tell their own stories. Soldiers who fought for all sides and in all of the major theatres tell of the fear and horror of combat. Partisan fighters recount the daring risks they took and the torments of captivity. Civilians describe the anxiety of approaching war, their struggle for survival, and their despair and helplessness as the war consumed their world. Bourke chillingly demonstrates that all of this sorrow and woe was the direct result of political and military decisions on both sides. A brief, objective synopsis of each campaign in the war clarifies the link between strategic, military decisions and the massacre and inhumane treatment of non-combatants--events now known only by names like Nanking, Sobibor, Dresden, and Nagasaki--that was all too common in this brutal war. This short, engaging history is a poignant testimony to the memory of the innocents lost and a stark reminder that their demise was not inevitable--indeed it was often strategically planned and methodically executed.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Storia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale vol. 1 Henri Michel, 2021-01-12T00:00:00+01:00 La Seconda guerra mondiale è finita con la sconfitta di quelli che l’avevano voluta: Germania e Giappone. Ma è cominciata con le loro vittorie, vittorie di una tale ampiezza che avrebbero potuto sembrare decisive. Ed è a questa prima parte del conflitto, ai successi dell’Asse, che Michel dedica il primo volume della sua Storia della Seconda guerra mondiale. Si tratta di una ricerca che indaga gli aspetti socio-politici ed economici, e tiene conto delle complesse e sovrapposte diplomazie interne e internazionali dell’epoca. Magistrale nello sforzo di sintesi, l’opera di Michel mostra anche qual è stato il reale ruolo dell’Italia nel secondo conflitto mondiale, un Paese alleato della Germania nazista, poi travolto dalle vicende belliche in un gioco assai più grande dei suoi evidenti limiti politici.Popoli assoggettati da secoli sentono venuto il momento di trasformarsi in nazioni. I vinti del primo scontro preparano con la loro rivincita o la loro liberazione le grandi trasformazioni che li faranno rinascere. Con la vittoria degli Alleati si conclude questo secondo volume e la magistrale ricostruzione del secondo conflitto mondiale a opera di Michel.
  seconda guerra mondiale: La Seconda guerra mondiale , 1967
  seconda guerra mondiale: The Second World War Antony Beevor, 2012-06-05 A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
  seconda guerra mondiale: The Origins of the Second World War R. J. Overy, 2008 The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. Richard Overy argues that this was not just 'Hitler's War' but one that had its roots and origins in the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers in Germany, Italy and Japan. Any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must be multinational in scope taking into account the basic instability of the international system that had still not recovered from the shocks of the Great War. In this third edition: - The role of Italy in the approach to war has been re-evaluated - Overy addresses recent revelations about Soviet policy in the 1930s, particularly exploring Soviet military planning and preparations - Arguments about Chamberlain and his policy of appeasement are rethought and reassessed. This new edition has now been completely overhauled, updated, expanded and reset. With a comprehensive documents section, colour plates, guide to who's who, a chronology and lists of further reading, TheOrigins of the Second World War will provide an invaluable introduction to any student of this fascinating period. Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has authored 17 books on the Third Reich, the Second World War and air warfare which include: The Air War 1939-1945 (2nd ed, 2006), Why the Allies Won (2nd ed, 2006) and The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004)which won both the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for History in 2005.
  seconda guerra mondiale: World War II in Photographs Richard Holmes, 2008-02 This book distills the very best of the Imperial War Museum's remarkable and vast photographic collection. It features many unseen images of the war, covering all theaters of operation and including the work of such renowned photographers as Cecil Beaton and Bill Brandt.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Tecniche di addestramento militare. Tutti i segreti dei corpi speciali Chris McNab, 2003
  seconda guerra mondiale: L'Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale e nella resistenza Francesca Ferratini Tosi, Gaetano Grassi, Massimo Legnani, 1988
  seconda guerra mondiale: Storia dell'Italia moderna Giorgio Candeloro, 1990
  seconda guerra mondiale: Le due Guerre Mondiali Syliva Archer Reeves, 2023-09-08 Scoprite la storia travagliata e drammatica delle due guerre che hanno segnato il ventesimo secolo in Le Due Guerre Mondiali. In questo avvincente saggio, vi immergerete nei cuori e nelle menti dei leader, esplorerete le tattiche militari audaci e analizzerete le conseguenze devastanti di due conflitti globali. Attraverso l'analisi approfondita delle cause scatenanti, dalle tensioni prebelliche in Europa all'ascesa di Hitler e Mussolini, scoprirete i focolai di queste epiche tragedie. Vivrete le battaglie epiche dell'Europa e del Pacifico, dalla Blitzkrieg all'uso delle bombe atomiche su Hiroshima e Nagasaki. Ma questo saggio va oltre la storia, esaminando anche l'impatto duraturo di queste guerre sulla politica, l'economia e la geopolitica mondiale. Dalla Guerra Fredda alle conferenze di pace, esplorerete come il mondo è stato modellato dalle cicatrici di queste guerre. È un viaggio nella complessità della storia moderna, una lettura avvincente e illuminante che vi lascerà con una comprensione più profonda del mondo in cui viviamo oggi. Un libro essenziale per gli appassionati di storia e per chiunque cerchi di comprendere il nostro passato per affrontare il futuro.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Seconda guerra mondiale Flavio Fiorani, 2018-02-23 Equilibri e conflitti del mondo in cui oggi viviamo subiscono ancora l'influenza degli esiti della Seconda guerra mondiale, la «guerra totale» che ha coinvolto centinaia di milioni di persone in ogni angolo del mondo. Questo libro è dedicato alla sua storia drammatica e complessa. Un grande racconto che ripercorre, evento per evento, i sei lunghi anni del conflitto, dal 1939 al 1945. Uno strumento di studio insostituibile per capire in ogni suo aspetto l'evento cardine del XX secolo.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Milan Vego, 2018-12-07 This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control – avoiding/seeking decisive encounters, weakening enemy naval forces over time, counter-containment of enemy naval forces, destroying the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, attacks on the enemy coast, defense of the coast, defense/capturing important positions/basing areas, and defense/capturing of a choke point. A majority of the world’s navies are currently of small or medium-size. In the case of a war with a much stronger opponent, they would be strategically on the defensive, and their main objective then would be to dispute control of the sea by a stronger side at sea. This book provides a practical guide to such a strategy. This book would be of much interest to students of naval power, maritime security, strategic studies and military/naval history.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Fascism's European Empire Davide Rodogno, 2006-08-03 This 2006 book is a controversial reappraisal of the Italian occupation of the Mediterranean during the Second World War, which Davide Rodogno examines within the framework of fascist imperial ambitions. He focuses on the European territories annexed and occupied by Italy between 1940 and 1943: metropolitan France, Corsica, Slovenia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and mainland and insular Greece. He explores Italy's plans for Mediterranean expansion, its relationship with Germany, economic exploitation, the forced 'Italianisation' of the annexed territories, collaboration, repression, and Italian policies towards refugees and Jews. He also compares Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany through their dreams of imperial conquest, the role of racism and anti-Semitism, and the 'fascistization' of the Italian Army. Based on previously unpublished sources, this is a groundbreaking contribution to genocide, resistance, war crimes and occupation studies as well as to the history of the Second World War more generally.
  seconda guerra mondiale: La Seconda Guerra Mondiale e la sua memoria Piero Craveri, Gaetano Quagliariello, 2006
  seconda guerra mondiale: Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 Claudia Baldoli, Andrew Knapp, Richard Overy, 2011-06-30 This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. With Western Europe now at the heart of a united continent, it is even more difficult to explain how only 70 years ago European states destroyed much of the urban landscape from the air. There were many blitzes between 1940 and 1945 with an estimated 700,000 people killed. The purpose of this book is to provide the basis for a comparison of the experience of western states under the impact of bombing. In particular, it considers the political, cultural and social responses to bombing rather than the military, strategic and social dimensions which have formed the core of the discussion hitherto. This book will correct the popular perception of the British Blitz as the key bombing experience by exposing the reality of life under the bombs for communities as far apart as Brest, Palermo, and Rostock. An international panel of historians consider the issues raised amidst the bombing of human rights and protection of civilians in this seminal event in C20th history.
  seconda guerra mondiale: The Economics of World War II Mark Harrison, 2000-06-26 This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers; the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. What contribution did economics made to war preparedness and to winning or losing the war? What was the effect of wartime experiences on postwar fortunes, and did those who won the war lose the peace? A chapter is devoted to each country, reviewing its economic war potential, military-economic policies and performance, war expenditures and development, while the introductory chapter presents a comparative overview. The result of an international collaborative project, the volume aims to provide a text of statistical reference for students and researchers interested in international and comparative economic history, the history of World War II, the history of economic policy, and comparative economic systems. It embodies the latest in economic analysis and historical research.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Mussolini's War John Gooch, 2020-12-01 A remarkable new history evoking the centrality of Italy to World War II, outlining the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties, and an Allied invasion in 1943 that ushered in a terrible new era for the country. John Gooch's new history is the definitive account of Italy's war experience. Beginning with the invasion of Abyssinia and ending with Mussolini's arrest, Gooch brilliantly portrays the nightmare of a country with too small an industrial sector, too incompetent a leadership and too many fronts on which to fight. Everywhere—whether in the USSR, the Western Desert, or the Balkans—Italian troops found themselves against either better-equipped or more motivated enemies. The result was a war entirely at odds with the dreams of pre-war Italian planners—a series of desperate improvisations against an allied force who could draw on global resources, and against whom Italy proved helpless.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Operation C3 John Burtt, 2023-05-04 Burtt offers an account of how an invasion might have unfolded and its consequences, by drawing on parallel events at other times and places...Definitely worth a read. — The NYMAS Review When writing his memoirs after World War II, German Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring stated, “Italy’s missing her chance to occupy the island [of Malta] at the start of hostilities will go down in history as a fundamental blunder.” It’s easy to see why this tiny 95 square mile island held such a prominent place in the war’s Mediterranean Theater. Located almost halfway between the British bases of Gibraltar and Alexandria, Egypt, and just 60 miles south of Sicily, her airfields and naval base stood directly in the path of Italy’s (and her German partner’s) line of communication from Europe to North Africa. Operation C3 is a detailed study of the Axis 1942 plan to invade and take the island of Malta. The book examines the future combatants up to the Axis capture of Tobruk, in June 1942. The book then provides a realistic assessment of what would have had to happen if the Axis had decided to launch the invasion. Operation C3 then provides a day-by-day battle narrative of the invasion as if it had occurred on Saturday, August 15, 1942. The battle narrative is based on the combatant’s actual plans from the Italian and Maltese archives. and the realistic appraisal of what could have happened when those plans collide. A Reality & Analysis section is added after the battle narrative to discuss what really happened after Tobruk fell and why Operation C3 was never attempted.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education, Art, and Museums Guazzaroni, Giuliana, Pillai, Anitha S., 2019-11-22 Due to the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence technologies, schools, museums, and art galleries will need to change traditional ways of working and conventional thought processes to fully embrace their potential. Integrating virtual and augmented reality technologies and wearable devices into these fields can promote higher engagement in an increasingly digital world. Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education, Art, and Museums is an essential research book that explores the strategic role and use of virtual and augmented reality in shaping visitor experiences at art galleries and museums and their ability to enhance education. Highlighting a range of topics such as online learning, digital heritage, and gaming, this book is ideal for museum directors, tour developers, educational software designers, 3D artists, designers, curators, preservationists, conservationists, education coordinators, academicians, researchers, and students.
  seconda guerra mondiale: The Italian Army and the First World War John Gooch, 2014-06-19 This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War. Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still controversial defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio Veneto on the eve of the Armistice. Setting military events within a broader context, the book explores pre-war Italian military culture and the interactions between domestic politics, economics and society. In a unique study of an unjustly neglected facet of the war, John Gooch illustrates how General Luigi Cadorna, a brutal disciplinarian, drove the army to the edge of collapse, and how his successor, general Armando Diaz, rebuilt it and led the Italians to their greatest victory in modern times.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Mussolini’s Army against Greece Richard Carrier, 2021-03-08 This book analyses why the Italian army failed to defeat its Greek opponent between October 1940 and April 1941. It thoroughly examines the multiple forms of ineffectiveness that plagued the political leadership as well as the military organisation. Mussolini’s aggression of Greece ranks among the most neglected campaigns of the Second World War. Initiated on 28 October 1940, the offensive came to a halt less than ten days later; by mid-November, the Greek counter-offensive put the Italian armies on the defensive, and back in Albania. From then on, the fatal interaction between failing command structures, inadequate weapons and equipment, unprepared and unmotivated combatants, and terrible logistics lowered to a dangerous level the fighting power of Italian combatants. This essay proposes that compared to the North African and Russian campaigns where the Regio Esercito achieved a decent level of military effectiveness, the operation against Greece was a military fiasco. Only the courage of its soldiers and the German intervention saved the dictator’s army from complete disaster. This book would appeal to anyone interested in the history of the world war, and to those involved in the study of military effectiveness and intrigued by why armies fail.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Il calo della popolazione in URSS dal 1937 al 1945: entità, forme, storiografia Sergej Kropačev, Evgenij Кrinkо, 2016-05-18 Lo stalinismo rappresenta tutt’oggi uno dei periodi più complessi e controversi della storia della Russia e dell’Unione Sovietica. L’accertamento del numero delle vittime di Stalin suscita ancora animate discussioni tra i ricercatori e in Russia e nella storiografia postsovietica si assiste alla continua nascita di nuove forme di rappresentazione delle conoscenze storiche, molte delle quali non ancora adeguatamente verificate dagli studiosi. La ricerca di Kropačev e Krinko è chiamata proprio a colmare questa lacuna. Dedicato agli specialisti, ma accessibile anche al lettore appassionato di storia, il volume intende fare luce sulla reale entità del calo demografico in URSS tra il 1937 e il 1945, conseguente alle repressioni staliniane e alla Seconda guerra mondiale. Gli autori dedicano in particolare grande attenzione agli aspetti metodologici della ricerca storiografica e alla ricostruzione dettagliata e approfondita delle tappe attraverso cui sono passate la percezione e la narrazione dei crimini staliniani nel potere e nella società sovietici. Un libro che fa luce su uno dei periodi più bui del Novecento.
  seconda guerra mondiale: In Passage Perilous Vincent P. O'Hara, 2012-11-05 By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys from Gibraltar and Egypt toward Malta. In a complex battle lasting more than a week, Italian and German forces defeated Operation Vigorous, the larger eastern effort, and ravaged the western convoy, Operation Harpoon, in a series of air, submarine, and surface attacks culminating in the Battle of Pantelleria. Just two of seventeen merchant ships that set out for Malta reached their destination. In Passage Perilous presents a detailed description of the operations and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to Rommel's army in North Africa. The book's discussion of the battle's operational aspects highlights the complex relationships between air and naval power and the influence of geography on littoral operations.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Struggle for the Middle Sea Vincent O'Hara, 2009-06-01 The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic or Pacific yet remarkably little has been written about the subject. Th is fresh study of the Mediterranean's naval war analyzes the actions and performances of the five major navies-British, Italian, French, German, and American-during the entire five-year campaign and examines the national imperatives that drove each nation's maritime strategy. Struggle for the Middle Sea provides a history of the entire campaign from all perspectives and covers Germany's largely unknown-and remarkably successful-struggle to employ sea power in the Mediterranean after the Italian armistice. Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy (August 2009) has called it “a new and stunningly important view of World War II” and “a fabulously readable and important book.”
  seconda guerra mondiale: Exercising Control of the Sea Milan Vego, 2020-10-14 This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control when one’s strategic or operational success is exploited; otherwise, the fruits of victories achieved would be wasted. This work describes the strategy of a stronger side in wartime after a desired degree of control has been obtained, which is followed by a discussion on the objectives and main methods used in exercising sea control. The remaining chapters explain and analyze in some detail each of the main methods of exercising sea control: defence and protection of one’s own and destruction/neutralization of the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, capturing the enemy’s operationally important positions ashore, destroying/weakening the enemy’s military-economic potential ashore and supporting one’s ground forces in their offensive and defensive operations on the coast. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, sea power and naval history.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Italia 1939-1945 Anna Lisa Carlotti, 1996
  seconda guerra mondiale: A Century of Italian War Narratives , 2023-06-12 This volume focuses on acts of courage, defiance, and sacrifice undertaken during World War I and II by individuals that mainstream history has relegated to the sidelines. Drawn from different genres – literary, cinematic, diaristic and historical – the experiences that these ‘outsiders’ confronted lay bare the intimate, if lacerating, choices that they faced in their struggle for freedom. Ignored by official history, the testimonials that war prisoners, female partisan leaders, spies, deserters, and disillusioned soldiers offer, provide a fresh insight into the social, political, historical, and ethical contradictions that define warfare rhetoric in the twentieth century. The book’s ten contributors delve into the conflicts between oppressive authorities and the desire for freedom. With verve and energy, they revive these largely neglected voices and turn them into a provocative medium to discuss, and redefine, issues still relevant today: heroism, pacifism, national pride, gender issues, faith, personal and collective history.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Fascist Ideology Aristotle Kallis, 2002-01-04 Fascist Ideology is a comparative study of the expansionist foreign policies of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany from 1922-1945. Fascist Ideology provides a comparative investigation of fascist expansionism by focusing on the close relations between ideology and action under Mussolini and Hitler. With an overview of the ideological motivations behind fascist expansionism and their impact on fascist policies, this book explores the two main issues which have dominated the historiographical debates on the nature of fascist expansionism: whether Italy's and Germany's particular expansionist tendancies can be attributed to a set of generic fascist values, or were shaped by the long term, uniquely national ambitions and developments since unification; whether the pursuit of expansion was opportunistic or followed a grand design in each case.
  seconda guerra mondiale: The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940–1947 B. Moore, K. Fedorowich, 2002-03-13 During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. Although a symbol of military success, these prisoners created a multitude of problems for the authorities throughout the war. This book looks at how the British addressed these problems and turned liabilities into assets by using the Italians as a labour force, a source of military intelligence and as a political warfare tool before their final repatriation in 1946-47.
  seconda guerra mondiale: A Fascist Decade of War Marco Maria Aterrano, Karine Varley, 2020-05-04 From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, France, Greece, the Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East. As a junior partner to Nazi Germany, only entering the war in June 1940, Italy is often seen as a relatively minor player in World War II. However, this book challenges much of the existing scholarship by arguing that Fascist Italy played a significant and distinct role in shaping international relations between 1935 and 1945, creating a Fascist decade of war.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Germany and the Second World War Gerhard Schreiber, 1990 Explores the conduct of the war in the Mediterranean region and examines the dramatic military events of this period
  seconda guerra mondiale: Naples 1944 Keith Lowe, 2025-03-11 Award-winning author Keith Lowe's newest critical deep-dive into the history of Naples during WWII. Keith Lowe has chronicled the end of WWII in Europe in his award-winning book Savage Continent and the war’s aftermath in the sequel, The Fear and the Freedom. In Naples 1944, he brings readers another masterful chronicle of the terrible and often unexpected consequences of war. Even before the fall of Mussolini, Naples was a place of great contrasts filled with palaces and slums, beloved cuisine and widespread hunger. After the Allied liberation, these contrasts made the city instantly notorious. Compared to the starving population, Allied soldiers were staggeringly wealthy. For a packet of cigarettes, even the lowest ranks could buy themselves a watch, a new suit or a woman for the night. As the biggest port in Allied hands, Naples quickly became the center of Italy’s black market and has remained so ever since. Within just a few months the Camorra began to re-establish itself. Behind the chaos and the corruption, there was always the threat of violence. Army guns were looted and traded. Gangs of street kids fought running battles with the military police. Public buildings, booby-trapped by departing Germans, began to explode, seemingly spontaneously. Then in March 1944 - like an omen - Vesuvius erupted. Naples was the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. What they found there would set a template for the whole of the rest of Europe in the years to come. Keith Lowe’s Naples 1944 is a page-turning book about a city on the brink of chaos and glimpse into the dark heart of postwar Italy.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Fascismo e antifascismo Vol. 2 A.A.V.V., 2024-04-19T00:00:00+02:00 Il fascismo ha sempre mancato di coscienza storica: ha combattuto la storia, negando tutto il mondo moderno, dalla Rivoluzione francese in poi, e il Risorgimento – sì che a ragione è stato chiamato l’Antirisorgimento. Senza contare che, per il fascismo, la storia era necessariamente apologia. Se si prendono in esame gli scritti dei più decisi antifascisti non si può non restare colpiti dal fatto opposto: tutti mostrano il desiderio profondo di capire quanto è accaduto, le ragioni stesse dell’affermazione fascista. La coscienza storica è una loro caratteristica inconfondibile. Presentiamo in questo libro lezioni e testimonianze sul fascismo e sulla Resistenza per rinsaldare questa coscienza storica e per ricucire il rapporto fra le diverse generazioni. A questo servono gli scritti qui raccolti: permettere di ricollocare gli uomini nel loro tempo trascorso, di risentire vivo il passato, di ristabilire una continuità effettiva e immediata. Ma soprattutto, capire cosa è stato il fascismo e come si è originato, per meglio interpretare l’antifascismo e la Resistenza, termini di riferimento indispensabili nel cammino compiuto dalle forze che hanno costruito la nostra Repubblica.
  seconda guerra mondiale: L'Europa verso la seconda guerra mondiale Giuseppe Rocco, 1997
  seconda guerra mondiale: Forgotten Battles Charles T. O'Reilly, 2001-01-01 Italy's War of Liberation takes issue with the apparently prevalent attitude among Allied commanders during World War II that the Italian military was ineffective. O'Reilly recounts the little-known story of the significant contribution made by the Italian military during the Italian Campaign, including the contribution of relatively unacknowledged Italian Partisan formations that fought in Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Despite the fact that Italians fought on the front lines with the British and American soldiers, and despite the service of the Italian Navy and Air Force, the Allies refused repeated Italian pleas for more involvement in combat. This book not only attempts to correct the record of military history by illustrating the ways in which the Italians were underutilized by the Allies, but it also serves to paint a fair portrait of the Italian military's substantial efforts to defeat Hitler and eradicate Fascism.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Aircraft Carrier Impero Davide F. Jabes, Stefano Sappino, 2018-06-30 From 1941, Italy had been developing a top-secret project to install guided rocket weapons aboard aircraft carriers. Campini Capron s revolutionary guided rocket weapon, the DAAC, which would later become Hitler s Henschel HS-117 Schmetterling ( Butterfly ), was the selected projectile. Classified intelligence on the V-1 flying bomb and other aircraft projects were acquired and then discarded when Ansaldo s naval architect, Lino Campagnoli (1911 1975), issued plans for the Impero battleship to be transformed into a modern fleet carrier. Previously unpublished documentation reveals how the last of the four state-of-the-art Littorio-class battleships, which was in advanced completion (hull components and engines installed), was destined for conversion into a modern aircraft carrier. This is an exhaustive historical review of the Impero and Regia Marina s (Royal Navy) developments as well as the dramatic story of the lack of co-operation and strategic insight with Regia Aeronautica before and during the war (1922-1943). Also, a final evaluation of the revolutionary Pugliese anti-torpedo system, based on unpublished German and Russian documentation, is assessed.
  seconda guerra mondiale: Italy and the Middle East Paolo Soave, Luciano Monzali, 2020-12-10 Italy played a vital role in the Cold War dynamics that shaped the Middle East in the latter part of the 20th century. It was a junior partner in the strategic plans of NATO and warmly appreciated by some Arab countries for its regional approach. But Italian foreign policy towards the Middle East balanced between promoting dialogue, stability and cooperation on one hand, and colluding with global superpower manoeuvres to exploit existing tensions and achieve local influence on the other. Italy and the Middle East brings together a range of experts on Italian international relations to analyse, for the first time in English, the country's Cold War relationship with the Middle East. Chapters covering a wide range of defining twentieth century events - from the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Lebanese Civil War, to the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan – demonstrate the nuances of Italian foreign policy in dealing with the complexity of Middle Eastern relations. The collection demonstrates the interaction of local and global issues in shaping Italy's international relations with the Middle East, making it essential reading to students of the Cold War, regional interactions, and the international relations of Italy and the Middle East.
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La seconda guerra mondiale vide contrapporsi, tra il 1939 e il 1945, le cosiddette potenze dell'Asse e gli Alleati che, come già accaduto ai belligeranti della prima guerra mondiale, si combatterono …

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La seconda guerra mondiale vide contrapporsi, tra il 1939 e il 1945, le cosiddette potenze dell'Asse e gli Alleati che, come già accaduto ai …

World War II - Wikipedia
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis …

Seconda guerra mondiale: riassunto semplice - Scuolissi…
La seconda guerra mondiale fu il più grande conflitto armato della storia, iniziato il 1º settembre 1939 e terminato 2 settembre 1945, che venne …

Seconda Guerra Mondiale: schieramenti, cause e conseg…
Seconda Guerra Mondiale: schieramenti, cronologia ed eventi principali. Cause della guerra, conclusione delle ostilità e …

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La Seconda Guerra Mondiale iniziò con l'invasione della Polonia da parte della Germania il 1° settembre 1939, seguita dalla dichiarazione di guerra di …