Focusing on organization, equipment and tactics, this book offers a detailed, comprehensive guide to the myriad branches of Italian partisan resistance in World War II. It also covers the German and Italian units that cracked down against them with astonishing ferocity.
Focusing on organization, equipment and tactics, this book offers a detailed, comprehensive guide to the myriad branches of Italian partisan resistance in World War II. It also covers the German and Italian units that cracked down against them with astonishing ferocity.
Pier Paolo Battistelli earned his PhD in Military History at the University of Padua. A scholar of German and Italian politics and strategy throughout World War II, he is active in Italy and abroad writing books and essays on military history subjects. A contributor to the Italian Army Historical Office, he is currently revising his PhD thesis for publication: The War of the Axis: German and Italian Military Partnership in World War Two, 1939-1943.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Italian surrender and German occupation German organization From early resistance to partisan warfare Peak of operations: collapse of RSI army security forces and mobilization of Fascist Party 'Black Brigades' - SS take over from Wehrmacht - creation of partisan CVT command, and 'free zones' - partisans fight with Allied troops - resistance in Florence - the struggle on the Franco-Italian border /Crisis of September 1944-March 1945: major anti-partisan operations - deployment of German combat units against partisans The Allies and the partisans Final uprising The 'operational zones': the NW Italo-French and NE Italo-Yugoslav frontiers Equipment, tactics, and assessment of Italian partisan groups Equipment, tactics and assessment of German and Italian Fascist anti-partisan forces Bibliography Index
Introduction: Italian surrender and German occupation German organization From early resistance to partisan warfare Peak of operations: collapse of RSI army security forces and mobilization of Fascist Party 'Black Brigades' - SS take over from Wehrmacht - creation of partisan CVT command, and 'free zones' - partisans fight with Allied troops - resistance in Florence - the struggle on the Franco-Italian border /Crisis of September 1944-March 1945: major anti-partisan operations - deployment of German combat units against partisans The Allies and the partisans Final uprising The 'operational zones': the NW Italo-French and NE Italo-Yugoslav frontiers Equipment, tactics, and assessment of Italian partisan groups Equipment, tactics and assessment of German and Italian Fascist anti-partisan forces Bibliography Index
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