Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-93268-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 395 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Cambridge Military Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marcuzzi, Stefano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures; List of Maps; Introduction; Part I. Making the Anglo-Italian Entente (1914–1915): 1. Context; 2. Traditional Friendship; 3. Crumbling Principles; 4. Pushing Friendship into Alliance; 5. The Contested Treaty; Part II. Integrating Italy into the Triple Entente (Spring 1915 – Summer 1917): 6. Context; 7. Turning Papers into Policies: the Implementation of the London Treaty; 8. Dealing with Recalcitrant Allies: Shaping Italy's War; 9. Peripheral Competition; 10. Shaping Allied Grand Strategy; 11. Italy's Empire Project Accepted; Part III. The Forked Road to Victory and Peace (Autumn 1917 – Summer 1919): 12. Context; 13. Clash of Responsibilities: the Caporetto Crisis; 14. Response to Military Emergencies: Keeping Italy Alive; 15. Re-Shaping Allied Grand Strategy; 16. Propaganda as a Strategy; 17. Divided at the Finish Line; 18. Versailles 1919: Italy's Empire Project Repudiated; 19. Epilogue: Bloody Christmas in Fiume; 20. Conclusions; Bibliography and Sources; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Marcuzzi, Stefano
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.