Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943This book explains why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffectual at an activity war that was central to their existence. Italy's economic fragility, Mussolini's strategic ideological fantasies, and Hitler's failure in the wider war made Italy's ruin inevitable, but did not determine its peculiarly undignified character. Hitler's Italian Allies demonstrates the extent to which Italian military culture a concept with