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Author Wilcox, Vanda, 1979- author.

Title Morale and the Italian army during the First World War / Vanda Wilcox, John Cabot University
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series Cambridge Military Histories
Cambridge military histories.
Contents Part I. Army policies and morale -- Leadership, command culture and organization -- Incentivising high morale -- Discipline -- Combat readiness -- Part II. Italians under arms -- Endurance: experience and the negotiation of identity -- Consent and compliance -- Refusal: indiscipline, protest and nervous collapse -- Conclusion
Summary Italian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy's notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army's demands through balancing their civilian and military identities
Subject Italy. Regio Esercito -- History -- World War, 1914-1918
Italy. Regio Esercito -- Military life
SUBJECT Italy. Regio Esercito fast
Subject Morale -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Armed Forces -- Military life
Morale
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781316661840
1316661849
9781316693810
1316693813