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Poster for war bonds depicting Italia Turrita fighting off a Germanic barbarian “For you, for you born to live in an Italy stronger, happier and more respected” Defeat at the battle of Caporetto in October 1917 brought about a revolution in Italian wartime propaganda under a new prime minister, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and a new commander ...
The Azienda Rilievo Alienazione Residuati (ARAR) was the body to which the Italian National Unity Government formed after the Second World War entrusted the task of selling the goods and war materials confiscated from the enemy or war surplus material abandoned by the allied army in order to make it easier to return home.
The Great War (Italian: La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I ; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare.
La Salute pubblica in Italia durante e dopo la Guerra. New Haven: Yale University Press. Nicolle, David (2003). The Italian Army of World War I. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-398-5. Page, Thomas Nelson (1920). Italy and the World War. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Full Text Available Online. Pompé, Daniel; et al., eds. (1924).
Late in the Battle of Britain, Italy contributed an expeditionary force, the Corpo Aereo Italiano, which took part in the Blitz from October 1940 until April 1941, at which time the last elements of the force were withdrawn. In November 1942, the Italian Royal Army occupied south-eastern Vichy France and Corsica as part of Case Anton.
The Ministry of War (Italian: Ministero della guerra) was a ministry of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1946 and of the Italian Republic from 1946 to 1947. Under the Kingdom of Italy, it oversaw the Royal Army (Italian: Regio Esercito), while under the Italian Republic it oversaw the Italian Army (Italian: Esercito Italiano).
Il Popolo d'Italia (English: "The People of Italy") was an Italian newspaper published from 15 November 1914 until 24 July 1943. It was founded by Benito Mussolini as a pro-war newspaper during World War I , and it later became the main newspaper of the Fascist movement in Italy after the war. [ 2 ]
A pro-war demonstration in Bologna, 1914. Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Despite this, in the years before the war, Italy had enhanced its diplomatic relationships with the United Kingdom and France.