Author:
Battistelli, Pier Paolo, author.
ImprintOxford : Osprey Publishing, 2015.
Description64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction -- From early resistance to partisan warfare -- Security & anti-partisan forces -- Partisan warfare -- Insurgency: summer 1944 -- Crisis: autumn-winter 1944 -- Recovery: spring 1945 -- Summary: the partisans -- Summary: the German reaction.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63) and index.
Note:"While the Allied armies were fighting their way up Italy in 1943-45, writing such battles as Anzio and Cassino into history, behind the German lines a less well-known but savage war was being fought by a widespread and varied partisan movement against the occupying Germans and their Italian Fascist allies. This war of raids, guerrilla ambushes and brutal reprisals would have its own grim milestones, such as the Ardeatine caves, Marzabotto and Monte Sole. For the first time in English, this book describes in detail the German and Fascist anti-partisan forces; lists their operations; and analyses the development, successes and failures of both sides in this campaign. It is illustrated throughout with rare photographs, with colour plates of the uniforms and equipment of both sides, and with detailed maps."--Publisher's note
