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Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War
By (author) Vanda Wilcox
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Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy's notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army's demands through balancing their civilian and military identities.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 4 Jul 2016
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 235
Dimensions | 235 x 157 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 520g
ISBN | 978-1-1071-5724-8
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BISAC | history / military / world war i
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