Common Destiny : Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Hardcover)

Introduction: war and revolution in Europe, 1789?1945; Part I. Origins and Dynamics: 1. Italy and Germany from unification to militant dictatorship, 1860?1933; 2. Conquest, foreign and domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany; Part II. Foreign Policies and Military Instruments: 3. Fascism and Italian foreign polity: continuity and break; 4. The Italian army at war, 1940?43: a study in combat effectiveness; 5. The Prussian idea of freedom and the 'career open to talent': battlefield initiative and social ascent from Prussian reform to Nazi revolution, 1807?1944; Conclusion: expansionist zeal, fighting power, and staying power in the Italian and German dictatorships.