teiresiasx
Airman
- 11
- Nov 4, 2009
Introduction: defeat and humiliation
1. The last war of Fascist Italy
2. Society, politics, regime, industry
3. Men and machines: armed forces and modern war
4. Strategy
5. Operations
6. Tactics
Conclusion: the weight of the past
The book is quite agile (200 pages). It is a good introduction to the matter, but the analysis is somehow too "traditional" and old-fashioned: the Author mainly refers to the "big" Italian military historians of the Eighties and to their common-places. An example: it is not possible to further define the G 50 "perhaps the worst monoplane fighter of WWII", if one takes into account the good achievements of the FIAT fighter in Finnish hands. In my opinion there are much better (and more recent) sectoral works. Anyhow the better chapter is the second and the worst the fourth.
1. The last war of Fascist Italy
2. Society, politics, regime, industry
3. Men and machines: armed forces and modern war
4. Strategy
5. Operations
6. Tactics
Conclusion: the weight of the past
The book is quite agile (200 pages). It is a good introduction to the matter, but the analysis is somehow too "traditional" and old-fashioned: the Author mainly refers to the "big" Italian military historians of the Eighties and to their common-places. An example: it is not possible to further define the G 50 "perhaps the worst monoplane fighter of WWII", if one takes into account the good achievements of the FIAT fighter in Finnish hands. In my opinion there are much better (and more recent) sectoral works. Anyhow the better chapter is the second and the worst the fourth.
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