Steel Centurions: Italian Armoured Formations of the Second World War 1940-43 - Couverture souple

Morisi, Paolo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191162881X ISBN 13 : 9781911628811

Editeur : Helion & Company, 2023

Synopsis

Forged on the battlefields of France, Greece and North Africa, the Italian Army's armored units fought effectively despite inferior weapons and equipment and the challenging conditions that they faced

This book describes the formation and battle performance of the major armored units such as the Ariete, Littorio and Centauro divisions together with lesser known special forces such as the motorized X Arditi Regiment and the Raggruppamenti Esploranti, or special reconnaissance units.

It traces their development during the 1930s to then focus on their combat experience in France, Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, East Africa, North Africa, and Sicily. Finally, the book also describes the establishment of the 1. Divisione Corazzata M. Camicie Nere (M Blackshirts Armored division) of 1943 which was fully equipped with German supplied tanks and self propelled guns. Covering the period between 1940 to 1943, the book reconstructs the history of these units by relying on their war diaries, official histories and other rare archival documents. In some cases, the book also draws from Allied or German archive documents.

It is illustrated throughout with rare wartime photographs, maps and detailed descriptions of their formation, training, tactics, weapons and armor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paolo Morisi is a military historian who has written extensively on the Italian Army during World War One and Two. He has published several books and articles on such topics as the Folgore Parachute Division, the Alpini and Austro-Hungarian stormtroopers of the First World War, the Savoia Marchetti S.79 torpedo bomber and the Axis air forces of the Second World War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Helion & Company
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191162881X
• ISBN 13: 9781911628811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible