Название: Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43
Автор: Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия/номер в серии: Warrior/169
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 66
Размер: 4 Mb
Язык: English
Despite the attention paid to the Afrikakorps over the years, it was the numerically far superior forces of the Italian Army that held the line and formed the bulk of the fighting power available to the Axis powers during the War in the Desert from 1941 through to 1943. Their performance has been unfairly criticised over the years - the best units of the Italian Army were equal to those of the British and Germans - but they suffered from a lack of mobility and poor equipment that made it impossible for them to meet mobile British forces on anywhere near equal terms.
