Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War: Defending and Forging Empires (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108831291)

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.

Author: Stefano Marcuzzi
ISBN-10: 110883129X
ISBN-13: 9781108831291
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2020
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d