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Adams, John Clarke, and Paolo Barile. The Government of Republican Italy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
Battaglia, Roberto, and P. D. Cummins. The Story of the Italian Resistance. London: Odhams P., 1958.
Clark, Martin, and Denys Hay. Modern Italy: 1871-1995. London u.a.: Longman, 2002.
Ginsborg, Paul. A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988. Penguin Books, 2011.
Holland, James. Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945. London: Harper Perennial, 2009.
Lewis, Absalom Roger Neil. A Strange Alliance: Aspects of Escape and Survival in Italy 1943-45. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1991.
Moseley, Ray. Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of Il Duce. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2021.
O'Reilly, Charles T. Forgotten Battles: Italy's War of Liberation, 1943-1945. Lanham (Md.): Lexington Books, 2001.
Pezzino, Paolo. “The Italian Resistance between History and Memory.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 10, no. 4 (2005): 396–412.
Portelli, Alessandro. The Order Has Been Carried out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Smith, Mack Denis. Italy; a Modern History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Varriale, Andrea. “The Myth of the Italian Resistance Movement (1943-1945).” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 27, no. 2 (2014): 383–93.
Adelman, Jonathan R. Hitler and His Allies in World War II. London: Routledge, 2007.
Giannone, Elicia. “Cultural Disparity and the Italo-German Alliance in the Second World War.” Master’s thesis, University of Calgary, 2015.
Gonsalves, Simon. “The Italian Army in the Second World War: A Historiographical Analysis.” Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History 5, no. 1 (2017): 1-22. scholar.uwindsor.ca/gljuh/vol5/iss1/2?utm_source=scholar.uwindsor.ca%2Fgljuh%2Fvol5%2Fiss1%2F2&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages.
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Knox, MacGregor. Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge: Cambridge University Publishing, 2000.
Mallett, Robert. The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 1935-1940. London: Routledge, 2013.
Nicolle, David. The Italian Invasion of Abyssinia 1935–1936. Westminster, Maryland: Osprey, 1997.
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Sadkovich, James J. “The Italo-Greek War in Context: Italian Priorities and Axis Diplomacy.” Journal of Contemporary History 28, no. 3 (1993): 439–64. jstor.org/stable/260641.
Sadkovich, James J. “Understanding Defeat: Reappraising Italy’s Role in World War II.” Journal of Contemporary History 24, no. 1 (1989): 27–61. jstor.org/stable/260699.
Stockings, Craig. “Something is wrong with our army…’ Command, Leadership & Italian Military Failure in the First Libyan Campaign, 1940-41.” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 14, no. 1 (2011).
Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. New York City: Random House, Inc., 2013.
Zickel, Raymond and Walter R. Iwaskiw, editors. “Albania: A Country Study.” Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1994.
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