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Italian Blackshirt 1935-45 (Warrior 144)

By Pier Paolo Battistelli , Giuseppe Rava , Piero Crociano

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
1846035058, 9781846035050
LCC
UA747 .C76 2010
Open Library ID
OL24539671M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22466152 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
64\68
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Blackshirt legions were raised under army control from 1928, and were employed in 1933 in Libya in counterinsurgency operations against the Senussi tribes; from 1935 in Italy's war against Ethiopia; and during the Spanish Civil War. Following the outbreak of World War II, the Blackshirts fought in North Africa, Greece, Croatia, on the Eastern Front and finally in Italy itself following the Allied invasion.This book documents the experiences of the Italian armed Fascist militia, the Camicie Nere (Blackshirts), from the Italian-Ethiopian war of 1935-36, through the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II. It explores their origins, development, recruitment, training, conditions of service, uniforms and equipment, battle experience, political and ideological motivation.

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