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Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War: Defending and Forging Empires (Cambridge Military Histories) - Hardcover

Book 41 of 52: Cambridge Military Histories

Marcuzzi, Stefano

 
9781108831291: Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War: Defending and Forging Empires (Cambridge Military Histories)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 110883129X ISBN 13: 9781108831291
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues – war aims, war strategy and peace-making – and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.

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About the Author

Stefano Marcuzzi is a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University College Dublin, an analyst in Emerging Challenges at the NATO Defense College Foundation, and an external fellow at Boston University.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
110883129X
ISBN 13 
9781108831291
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
396