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In World War II, Italy initially fought alongside Germany as part of the Axis Powers, but by 1943 the alliance had soured. Heavy military defeats in North Africa and the Allied invasion of Sicily ...

Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy’s war games on the country’s North frontier. Last week he staged this year’s war games in mid-peninsula among the mountain crags near Naples, which ...

The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries. Looking back on the Axis Powers ...

When War becomes a nation’s No. 1 business, any Government would like to abolish the profit system and take over the whole country. Next to Soviet Russia, Fascist nations are best equipped to do so.

The Strategy and Politics of Fascist Italy during World War II You will learn something new when reading this well written and well edited book about the war effort of Italy in World War II. The ...

The World War II journey of Senator Bob Dole began and ended in the mountains of Italy. The fighting in the mountains of Italy in WWII was so horrendous that the famed American 10th Mountain Division, ...

Often derided by their enemies and patronised by their major ally, the armed forces of Italy during the second world war have not been given the subsequent level of historical attention they deserve.

Maria Dolens, Italy’s monumental statue of peace, standing on the hill above Rovereto with the Alps in the background. On a hill above Rovereto, in northern Italy, a massive bronze bell swings out ...