A Fascist Decade of War: 1935–1945 in International Perspective

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Table of Contents
List of contributors
Introduction: a Fascist decade of war? The impact of the Italian wars
on the international stage, 1935–1945
PART I: The international dimension: policy-making and diplomacy
	1. An opportunity missed: Britain and the Abyssinian Crisis
	2. American policy towards Italy during its ‘decade of war’
	3. Repubblica Sociale Italiana and Spain: an ideological relationship in the decade of war
	4. A new deal for Italy: rethinking Britain’s punitive attitude and the making of the Allied policy in occupied Italy, 1944
PART II: A fascist warfare? Military conquest, transnational fighting and the use of violence
	5. Blind faith: rethinking the Italian intervention in Spain, 1936
	6. The conquest of Albania: the real beginning of World War II in Italy
	7. The despicable fighting qualities of the Wops: the East African campaign and the British Commonwealth’s victory over Fascist Italy
	8. From occupiers to comrades-in-arms: Italian fighters in the ranks of the Greek People’s Liberation Army
PART III: Ideology and propaganda for the empire at war
	9. A new navalism for a Fascist empire: navy, geopolitics, propaganda and radicalization (1934–1940)
	10. Revisiting the ‘colonial hypothesis’: the policies and language of the Italian army in Ethiopia and Yugoslavia
	11. What ‘new order’? Fascist expansionism and the Jews: the case of south-eastern France, 1942–1943
	12. Radio propaganda during the war: the Mediterranean scenario in Radio Bari’s broadcasts (1940–1943)
PART IV: A decade of war?
	13. Fascist Italy chooses endless war, 1935–1936: continuity and break
	14. Changing perspectives: Italian studies on Italy in World War II
Index