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Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Sources xii
Glossary xvi
1 Introduction 1
preindustrial Armies; Motorization and Mechanization;
Problem Areas in Research
2 A Short History of the Italian Army, 1860-1918 17
The Origins of the Italian Army; Structure of the Army;
The Elites of the Italian army; The First World War;
Mobile Operations in the First World War; The Colonial Expeirence
3 The Italian Econmy 33
The Risorgimento and Before; Italian Industry in the First World War;. The Fascist Epoch; the Direction of the War Economy; Fiat and Ansaldo; The Automobile in Italy
4 Reggimento Carri Armati 47
Assist The Infantry: Doctrine of the 1920s; The Organization of Tank Units, 1918-28; The First Italian Tanks
5 From the Alps to Ethiopia 69
I Celeri: Doctrine, 1928-35; Battalions for War; The Tank for Italian Terrain; Alpine Maneuvers
6 Combat Experience 93
Motorization's Lst Stand; The First Mechanized Units; Nothing to Offer: Italian Tanks in the Mid-1930s; Testing the armored Brigade
7 Divisions and Corps 113
Brigade or Division: Mechnization Arrives; The Ordinamento Pariani; 1938 Maneuvers
8 Prelude to War 133
La Politica Automobilistica; Spain and antitank
Welfare: Italian Doctrine in 1939; Continuing the Traditions of Spain; New Tanks at Last; Maneuvers and Landings
9 New Ideas, Old Tanks 151
Italy Goes to War; The Italian Armored Division in 1940; Mechaization and Motorization; The motorization of Italian Society; Ferrea Mole, Ferreo Cuore
Appendix 1
Organization of Italian Armored Forces, 1918-40 167
appendix 2
Italian Tanks Used between the Wars 171
Notes 175
bibliography 195
Index 201