Italy and the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Emanuele Sica; Richard Carrier

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Italy in the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives brings together fifteen international scholars to offer new contributions to the study of Italian war experience, both civilian and military, during the Second World War.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Translators
List of Contributors
Introduction
Emanuele Sica
Part 1
1940–1943: Occupations
Chapter 1
Allied with the Enemy: the Italian Occupation of Yugoslavia (1941–43)
Eric Gobetti
Chapter 2
The Military Court of Cettigne During the Italian Occupation of Montenegro (1941–1943)
Federico Goddi
Chapter 3
The Italian Occupation of Crete During the Second World War
Paolo Fonzi
Chapter 4
Italian Governing Apparatuses in Occupied France, 1940–1943
Niall MacGalloway
Part 2
1943–1945: The Other War: Fighting the Germans
Chapter 5
The Regio Esercito in Co-Belligerency, October 1943–April 1945
Richard Carrier
Chapter 6
The Italian Regio Esercito Co-Belligerent Soldiering, 1943–1945: A Grassroots Perspective
Nicolò Da Lio
Chapter 7
Multi-National Special Operators: The San Marco Marines, the Italian Partisans, and Allied Armies in Italy, 1943–45
Cindy Brown
Part 3
Fascism bis, Resistance, and Civil War
Chapter 8
War of Resistance and Resistance to War: Scenes of the History of the Guerrilla War
Luca Baldissara
Chapter 9
From Fascism to the Italian Civil War: The Republican Fascist’s Identity from 1943 to 1945
Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi
Chapter 10
Fighting Women: The Case of the Italian Social Republic 1943–45
Federico Ciavattone
Chapter 11
Punishing the Fascists: An Intense Debate During the Italian Civil War
Andrea Martini
Part 4
Ethnic Identities and Legacies of Violence
Chapter 12
“We Istrians Do Very Well in Russia”: Istrian Combatants, Fascist Propaganda, and Brutalization on the Eastern Front
Nicolas G. Virtue
Chapter 13 
Fighting Alongside the Allies in Italy: The War of Soldiers of Italian Descent Against the Land of Their Ancestors
Matteo Pretelli and Francesco Fusi
Chapter 14
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: The Punishment of War Crimes Committed in Italy by the Germans After 8 September 1943
Paolo Pezzino
Epilogue
Richard Carrier
Select Bibliography
Index