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Hamilton, Hope.
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Italy. Esercito. Alpini.
Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation)
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Sacrifice on the steppe : the Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942-1943 / by Hope Hamilton.
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Hamilton, Hope.
Philadelphia, Pa. : Casemate, 2011.
Subjects
Italy. Esercito. Alpini.
Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Russia (Federation)
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9781612000022 :
1612000029 :
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xiii, 366 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
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Germany's Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942 with extended flanks mainly held by its allied armies, the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. These flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter-offensive which commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war. One allied unit held out to the very end, the Italian Alpine Corps. As a result of Mussolini's disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany, by the fall of 1942, 227,000 soldiers of the Italian Eighth Army were deployed on a 270 km front along the Don River to protect the left flank of German troops intent on capturing Stalingrad. Sixty thousand of these were Alpini, elite Italian mountain troops. When the Don front collapsed, the Alpine Corps continued to hold out until it was completely isolated, and which then tried to fight its through both Russian encirclement and "General Winter," to rejoin the rest of the Axis front. Only one of the three Alpine divisions was able to emerge from Russian encirclement with survivors. In the battle across the snowy steppe, thousands were killed and wounded, and more were captured. By the summer of 1946, 10,000 survivors returned to Italy from Russian POW camps. Mussolini sent thousands of poorly equipped soldiers to a country far from their homeland, on a mission to wage war against a people who were not their enemies. Raw courage and endurance blend with human suffering, desperation and altruism in the story of this withdrawal from the Don lines. Hope Hamilton has drawn on many interviews with survivors and massive research to provide this World War II book.
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