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Subject(s)

• World War, 1914-1918—Great Britain [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Italy [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Diplomatic history [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—Italy [Browse]
• Italy—Foreign relations—Great Britain [Browse]

Series

Cambridge military histories [More in this series]

Summary note

This is an important reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Stefano Marcuzzi sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked but central aspect of Britain and Italy's war experiences: the uneasy and only partial overlap between Britain's strategy for imperial defence and Italy's ambition for imperial expansion. Taking Anglo-Italian bilateral relations as a special lens through which to understand the workings of the Entente in World War I, he reveals how the ups-and-downs of that relationship influenced and shaped Allied grand strategy. Marcuzzi considers three main issues - war aims, war strategy and peace-making - and examines how, under the pressure of divergent interests and wartime events, the Anglo-Italian 'traditional friendship' turned increasingly into competition by the end of the war, casting a shadow on Anglo-Italian relations both at the Peace Conference and in the interwar period.

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ISBN

9781108924009 (ebook)

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