Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

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Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: War and revolution in Europe, 1789–1945
Part I. Origins and dynamics
	1 Italy and Germany from unification to militant dictatorship, 1860–1933
		STATES, SOCIETIES, MYTHS
		THE HAMMER OF WAR, 1914–18
		THE “COLLAPSE OF LIBERAL REGIMES”?
		CONCLUSION
	2 Conquest, foreign and domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
		FASCISM, GENERIC AND HISTORIC
		FROM MISSION TO PROGRAM
		EXPANSION AND REVOLUTION: COUNTERFEIT PEACE
		EXPANSION AND REVOLUTION: UNHOLY WAR
		CONCLUSION
Part II. Foreign policies and military instruments
	3 Fascism and Italian foreign policy: Continuity and break
	4 The Italian army at war, 1940–43: A study in combat effectiveness
		MEN AND MACHINES: THE ARMY AND MODERN WAR
		OPERATIONS
		TACTICS
		CONCLUSION: THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST
	5 The Prussian idea of freedom and the “career open to  talent”: Battlefield initiative and social ascent from Prussian reform to Nazi revolution, 1807–1944
		PRUSSIAN FREEDOM TO 1933
		THE CAREER OPEN TO TALENT PROMISED AND DENIED,1808-1933
		THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS
		CONCLUSION
Conclusion: Expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and German dictatorships
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