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Published: 31st August 2000
ISBN: 9780521582087
Number Of Pages: 276
This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. It provides an unconventional and compelling overview from territorial unification in the 1860s to national catastrophe in 1943/45 that places Fascism and Nazism firmly in the tradition of revolutionary mass politics inaugurated in the French Revolution. Set within that overview are chapters analyzing Mussolini's poorly understood foreign policy and the character and performance of the military instruments upon which success chiefly depended-the Italian and German armies. The chapter on the German army and the conclusion-which dissects the causes of the striking disparities between the two dictatorships in expansionist appetite, fighting power, and staying power-argue that a unique synthesis of Prusso-German military tradition and Nazi revolution propelled Germany's fight to the last cartridge in 1943-45.
'This is a highly original book: the author demonstrates in a very carefully and thoughtfully done work how foreign and domestic policies in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were similar; takes the views of Hitler and Mussolini seriously - as those two did - and offers the reader a substantial array of fascinating new ideas.' Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World At Arms '... superbly researched, stimulating and well-written essays'. Times Literary Supplement
| Introduction: war and revolution in Europe, 1789û1945 | |
| Origins and Dynamics | |
| Italy and Germany from unification to militant dictatorship, 1860û1933 | |
| Conquest, foreign and domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany | |
| Foreign Policies and Military Instruments | |
| Fascism and Italian foreign polity: continuity and break | |
| The Italian army at war, 1940û43: a study in combat effectiveness | |
| The Prussian idea of freedom and the æcareer open to talentÆ: battlefield initiative and social ascent from Prussian reform to Nazi revolution, 1807û1944; Conclusion: expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and German dictatorships | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521582087
ISBN-10: 0521582083
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 276
Published: 31st August 2000
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.67 x 15.93
x 2.36
Weight (kg): 0.49
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