The Italian Army was instrumental in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union. Far more Italians died on Russian soil than in the North African desert, and yet Italian operations on the Eastern Front have remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian primary sources, he examines the history of the Italian campaign in the East between 1941 and 1943, as well as how the campaign was remembered and memorialized in the decades that followed. Linking operational military history with memory studies, this book revises our understanding of the Italian Army in the Second World War.weiterlesen