Overview
- Offers a groundbreaking study of the overlooked Italian operations on the Eastern Front during World War II
- Analyzes how dominant memories and narratives of the Italian war in the East were created and circulated during the Cold War
- Appeals to scholars of military history, World War II, memory studies, and Italian history
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Bastian Matteo Scianna’s book is a welcoming addition … . The author’s mission throughout his volume is clear … . The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941-1943, Operations, Myths and Memories is a mandatory book that should be on the shelves of those who want to nuance the history of not only the Eastern Front, but the Italian army in the Second World War, going beyond the prejudices of the Operetta Army trope.” (Emanuele Sica, War in History, Vol. 28 (4), 2021)
“... Gemeinsam mit der Gegenüberstellung von Memoirenliteratur, theoretischer Wissenschaftsdiskurse und innenpolitischer Narrative entsteht ein pluralistischer, die wichtigsten und divergenten Blickwinkel umfassender Methodenzugang, der geeignet ist, tradierte Mythen nachhaltig zu dekonstruieren. Scianna hat zweifelsohne einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Versachlichung der Frage nach dem Wirken italienischer Soldaten an der Front zur Sowjetunion 1941-1943 geleistet, der als eine Landmarke für die nachfolgende Forschung dient.” (Richard Germann, in: Connections, 24. April 2021)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Italian War on the Eastern Front, 1941–1943
Book Subtitle: Operations, Myths and Memories
Authors: Bastian Matteo Scianna
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26524-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26523-6Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26526-7Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26524-3Published: 09 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 365
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Italy, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Military, Memory Studies