The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941-1943 Operations, Myths and Memories /

• Main Author: Scianna, Bastian Matteo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Subjects: Italy-History.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; World War, 1939-1945.; Military history.; Historiography.; History of Italy.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; History of Military.; Memory Studies.

The Italian Army's participation in Hitler's war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East b...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Historiography: Past Problems and Recent Trends
• 3. The Italian Army before the Second World War (1861-1940)
• 4. The guerra fascista - 10 June 1940-25 July 1943
• 5. The Italian Operations on the Eastern Front (1941)
• 6. The Italian Operations on the Eastern Front (1942)
• 7. The Battle on the Don, 11 December 1942-31 December 1943
• 8. The Italian Combat Performance: 'Chicken led by Donkeys?'
• 9. Narratives about Victimhood: Evil Germans, Good Italian Occupiers, and Evil Soviets?
• 10. Shaping the Myths: Memoirs, the Army, and the Alpini
• 11. Contested Memories during the Cold War
• 12. Conclusion.