MacGregor Knox

Common Destiny

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes the origins, nature, dynamics, and ruinous end of the Italian and German dictatorships. Emphasizing themes of aggression, fighting power, and staying power, it offers a comparative overview of the two countriesâEUR(TM) trajectories from unification in the 1860s to national catastrophe in 1943âEUR"45.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9780521747172
• ISBN-10: 0521747171
• Artikelnr.: 26100805

Autorenporträt

MacGregor Knox has served as Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 1994. He was educated at Harvard College (BA, 1967) and Yale University (PhD in History, 1977), and has also taught at the University of Rochester (USA). His writings deal with the wars and dictatorships of the savage first half of the twentieth century and with contemporary international and strategic history, and include Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941 (1982); The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (ed., with Williamson Murray and Alvin Bernstein) (1994); Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-43 (2000); The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 (ed., with Williamson Murray) (2001); and To the Threshold of Power: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships (2007). Between his undergraduate and graduate studies he spent three years in the U.S. Army, and served in the Republic of Vietnam (1969) as rifle platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: war and revolution in Europe, 1789-1945; Part I. Origins and
Dynamics: 1. Italy and Germany from unification to militant dictatorship,
1860-1933; 2. Conquest, foreign and domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi
Germany; Part II. Foreign Policies and Military Instruments: 3. Fascism and
Italian foreign polity: continuity and break; 4. The Italian army at war,
1940-43: a study in combat effectiveness; 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; Conclusion:
expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and
German dictatorships.