Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great War by Stefano Marc... - 9781108831291

Britain and Italy in the Era of the Great WarDefending and Forging Empires\nAuthor(s): Stefano Marcuzzi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108831291, 978-1108831291\nSynopsis\nThis 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 even.