Britain and Italy in the era of the Great War : defending and forging empires
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Britain and Italy in the era of the Great War : defending and forging empires
(Cambridge military histories / edited by Hew Strachan, Geoffrey Wawro)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues - war aims, war strategy and peace-making - and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Part I. Making the Anglo-Italian Entente (1914-1915): 1. Context
- 2. Traditional Friendship
- 3. Crumbling Principles
- 4. Pushing Friendship into Alliance
- 5. The Contested Treaty
- Part II. Integrating Italy into the Triple Entente (Spring 1915 - Summer 1917): 6. Context
- 7. Turning Papers into Policies: the Implementation of the London Treaty
- 8. Dealing with Recalcitrant Allies: Shaping Italy's War
- 9. Peripheral Competition
- 10. Shaping Allied Grand Strategy
- 11. Italy's Empire Project Accepted
- Part III. The Forked Road to Victory and Peace (Autumn 1917 - Summer 1919): 12. Context
- 13. Clash of Responsibilities: the Caporetto Crisis
- 14. Response to Military Emergencies: Keeping Italy Alive
- 15. Re-Shaping Allied Grand Strategy
- 16. Propaganda as a Strategy
- 17. Divided at the Finish Line
- 18. Versailles 1919: Italy's Empire Project Repudiated
- 19. Epilogue: Bloody Christmas in Fiume
- 20. Conclusions
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index.
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