Автор: Pier Paolo Battistelli, Piero Crociani
Название: World War II Partisan Warfare in Italy (Osprey Elite 207)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2015
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 65
Размер: 8 Mb
Язык: English
Спасибо: kapitankarl

When Italy surrendered in 1943, it sparked a resistance movement of anti-German, anti-fascist partisans. This book explores the tactics, organizational structure and equipment of the brave Italian resistance fighters. Beginning with low-level sabotage and assassinations, the groups continued to grow until spring 1944 when a remarkable, unified partisan command structure was created. Working in close co-ordination with the Allies, they received British SOE and American OSS liaison teams as well as supplies of weapons. The German response was ferocious, and in autumn 1944, as the Allied advance stalled, the SS and Italian RSI looked to eradicate the partisans once and for all.