Lo sbarco di Salerno nella seconda guerra mondiale dalla prospettiva alleata
Author(s)
Albini, Maria Vittoria
Date Issued
July 14, 2015
Type
Doctoral Thesis
Abstract
This research focuses on one of the most important events of World War II: the landing
of Salerno on September 1943. In the fact, it has always been considered as a tactics
lab, in which both awareness of the environmental conditions and proper amphibious
landing techniques played a fundamental role. At the same time, Operation Avalanche
was a crucial episode in the Italian campaign, as it was the starting episode in the final
clash between the solid self-confidence of the Allies and the tireless opposition of the
German that would lead to the liberation of our country in April of 1945.
It also addresses the interweaving realities of the "liberators" on one side and that of the
occupated-liberated Southern Italian along with the Italoamerican population on the
other.
The elements emerging with greater force are the following:
1) The guidelines of the Allied administration, showing the differences between the
British conception (authoritarian and colonialist) and the American (hegemonic and
cooperative);
2) The contrast with the local territory, invested by the lumbering Allied presence;
3) The mentality gap and mutual prejudices, to be swept away.
Finally, the inextricable intertwining between historical diachrony and geographical
synchrony, between the occurring of political-military events and the geographicalmaterial
junctures of war, is explained.
This complex interpretation is supported by a detailed knowledge of the available
literature and by a large quantity of first-hand Anglo-Saxon documents (ACC at the
Archivio Centrale di Stato in Rome and the dedicated sections in the National Archives
of London).
Additional information
Dottorato di ricerca in Storia d'Europa: società, politica, istituzioni (XIX-XX secolo)
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