Steel Centurions
Italian Armoured Formations of the Second World War 1940-43
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2023
Helion & Company (Verlag)
978-1-911628-81-1 (ISBN)
Helion & Company (Verlag)
978-1-911628-81-1 (ISBN)
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Illustrated throughout it describes the formation and battle performance of the major Italian armoured units such as the Ariete, Littorio and Centauro divisions together with lesser known special forces.
Forged on the battlefields of France, Greece and North Africa, the Italian Army's armoured units fought effectively despite inferior weapons and equipment and the challenging conditions that they faced
This book describes the formation and battle performance of the major armoured units such as the Ariete, Littorio and Centauro divisions together with lesser known special forces such as the motorized X Arditi Regiment and the Raggruppamenti Esploranti, or special reconnaissance units.
It traces their development during the 1930s to then focus on their combat experience in France, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, East Africa, North Africa, and Sicily. Finally, the book also describes the establishment of the 1. Divisione Corazzata M. Camicie Nere (M Blackshirts Armoured division) of 1943 which was fully equipped with German supplied tanks and self propelled guns. Covering the period between 1940 to 1943, the book reconstructs the history of these units by relying on their war diaries, official histories and other rare archival documents. In some cases, the book also draws from Allied or German archive documents.
It is illustrated throughout with rare wartime photographs, maps and detailed descriptions of their formation, training, tactics, weapons and armour.
Forged on the battlefields of France, Greece and North Africa, the Italian Army's armoured units fought effectively despite inferior weapons and equipment and the challenging conditions that they faced
This book describes the formation and battle performance of the major armoured units such as the Ariete, Littorio and Centauro divisions together with lesser known special forces such as the motorized X Arditi Regiment and the Raggruppamenti Esploranti, or special reconnaissance units.
It traces their development during the 1930s to then focus on their combat experience in France, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, East Africa, North Africa, and Sicily. Finally, the book also describes the establishment of the 1. Divisione Corazzata M. Camicie Nere (M Blackshirts Armoured division) of 1943 which was fully equipped with German supplied tanks and self propelled guns. Covering the period between 1940 to 1943, the book reconstructs the history of these units by relying on their war diaries, official histories and other rare archival documents. In some cases, the book also draws from Allied or German archive documents.
It is illustrated throughout with rare wartime photographs, maps and detailed descriptions of their formation, training, tactics, weapons and armour.
Paolo Morisi is a specialist in military history and an expert on World War I. He studied at the University of Bologna and completed a Master of Arts in Political Studies and History at Columbia University in New York City. In 2012 he published a work on the Italian high mountain Arditi which won a special prize dedicated to the study of alpine warfare. He is also a member of the Guerra Bianca (The White War), a society comprised of military historians dedicated to the study of the military history of World War I in the Alps. This is his second publication for Helion & Company.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 100 b/w photos, 8 maps |
| Verlagsort | Solihull |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 171 x 248 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-911628-81-X / 191162881X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-911628-81-1 / 9781911628811 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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