Название: French Volunteers in Mussolini's Army (Military History Book 1)
Автор: Andrea Vezzа
Издательство: Savant Books LTD
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB/PDF (Conv)
Страниц: 264
Размер: 17,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The fact that during WW2 several units of foreign soldiers and combatants fighted against the Allies alongside the Italian Army - both before and after the fall of Mussolini on July 25th and the later constitution of the Italian Social Republic allied to the Germans - shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone.
Some historian has even written about a Mussolini’s “foreign legion”. In fact there was the (failed) attempt to give life to an Indian legion, made up of hindu nationalists, mainly enlisted within the ranks of the British troops taken prisoner in North Africa and to do the same with Arab nationalists. Rather more consistently thousands of anticommunist volunteers where organized in bands (and subsequently in battalions) in Dalmatia, in Slovenia and mainly in Serbia during the campaign against Yugoslavia. They were precious allies against Tito’s partisan bands.