Cover illustration: Interior of factory at San Giorgio shipyard (Interno di un cantiere San Giorgio a Genova): http://dati.acs.beniculturali.it/media/SecondaGuerraMondiale/SecondaGuerraMondiale/19929.jpg). With kind permission of the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome.
Worker of a war industry plant filmed through a gear assembly (Operaio di uno stabilimento di industria bellica (Piombino o Genova o Sestri o Spezia) ripreso attraverso un ingranaggio, busta 29.): http://dati.acs.beniculturali.it/media/SecondaGuerraMondiale/SecondaGuerraMondiale/22781.jpg. With kind permission of the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Sadkovich, James J., 1945- author.
Title: Fascist Italy at war : men and materiel / by James J. Sadkovich.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025. | Series: History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; volume 151 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024057533 (print) | LCCN 2024057534 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004701830 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004721715 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939-1945--Italy. | Fascism–Italy–History–20th century. | Italy–History–1922-1945.
Classification: LCC D763.I8 S24 2025 (print) | LCC D763.I8 (ebook) | DDC 940.53/45–dc23/eng/20250114
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ISSN 1385-7827
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DOI 10.1163/9789004721715
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