UID:
almahu_9947415263802882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316661840 (ebook)
Serie:
Cambridge military histories
Inhalt:
Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy's notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army's demands through balancing their civilian and military identities.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).
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Part I. Army policies and morale -- Leadership, command culture and organization -- Incentivising high morale -- Discipline -- Combat readiness -- Part II. Italians under arms -- Endurance: experience and the negotiation of identity -- Consent and compliance -- Refusal: indiscipline, protest and nervous collapse -- Conclusion.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781107157248
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316661840
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