The Italian Empire and the Great War Home Goods and the grim courage of

and the grim courage of the soldiers

connection points

who was killed on the Hindenburg in 1937

indeed the whole war

the world’s largest painting

The Italian Empire and the Great War Home Goods and the grim courage ofDescription by Vanda Wilcox Hardcover The Italian Empire and the Great War brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for war in 1915 built directly on Italian imperial ambitions from the late nineteenth century onwards, and its conquest of Libya in 1911 12. The Italian empire was conceived both as a system of overseas colonies under Italian sovereignty, and as an informal global