"Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera Book Review" Topic
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| Tango01 | 28 Sep 2020 9:53 p.m. PST |
"I recently received and finished reading Emanuele Sica's Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera. The book was published as part of the University of Illinois Press's The History of Military Occupation series. Sica offers an examination of the Italian involvement in France after the June 1940 surrender during WW2, first addressing the Italian demilitarized zone, then later the Italian occupation zone. I would rank it as a specialist's book, offering a chronology of events and some details, but leaving me thinking the complexities have been simplified a bit too much. I wanted more details. He does push back against the idea that the occupation was shaped by ‘Italiani Brava Gente' rather than polices and goals set by the Italian government. After I finished the book, I wondered if the Italian occupation had any real impact on the war. I would need to answer no. Besides the added strain on the Regio Esercito to garrison the area, the occupation had little advantage, if any for Italy.
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