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This book analyses why the Italian army failed to defeat its Greek opponent between October 1940 and April 1941. It thoroughly examines the multiple forms of ineffectiveness that plagued the political leadership as well as the military organisation.Mussolini's aggression of Greece ranks among the most neglected campaigns of the Second World War. Initiated on 28 October 1940, the offensive came to a halt less than ten days later; by mid-November, the Greek counter-offensive put the Italian armies on the defensive, and back in Albania. From then on, the fatal interaction between failing command structures, inadequate weapons and equipment, unprepared and unmotivated combatants, and terrible logistics lowered to a dangerous level the fighting power of Italian combatants. This essay proposes that compared to the North African and Russian campaigns where the Regio Esercito achieved a decent level of military effectiveness, the operation against Greece was a military fiasco. Only the courage of its soldiers and the German intervention saved the dictator's army from complete disaster.This book would appeal to anyone interested in the history of the world war, and to those involved in the study of military effectiveness and intrigued by why armies fail.

Ce livre retrace l'histoire d'un projet original et audacieux qui prit corps au Chili à l'époque d'Allende et qui, après, pendant les années noires de la dictature militaire, modifia son orientation et pesa sur l'histoire. Les acteurs du groupe Calama se firent pauvres avec les pauvres pour y découvrir les leaders naturels portant en eux les valeurs du bien commun et ce désir de s'engager dans la lutte de libération.

André Tanquerel (1894-1916) écrit à sa marraine de guerre et à sa fille. Ce lien épistolaire est pour le soldat la preuve qu'un ailleurs paisible existe et qu'on l'y attend. Cependant, il ne peut s'épancher complètement, à la censure militaire s'ajoutant l'autocensure... d'où naîtra l'incompréhension de celles-ci devant sa révolte, taxée d'antipatriotique. A travers ces lettres, c'est'l'Histoire de France'et l'histoire d'un homme qui s'entremêlent.

Une monographie historique sur la vie en Haute Montagne au moyen Âge, dans le massif du Mont-Blanc et ses alentours. La vie, sujet du livre, c'est la vie communautaire d'autant plus active que sont plus rudes les conditions de la vie montagnarde, et cependant étroitement contrôlée par un pouvoir seigneurial qui reste fort jusqu'à l'extrême fin du Moyen Âge.

For almost twenty years, the'Free Market'has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples'lives. Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. They also describe extensions and practical applications of the Market model in policy-making in the United States and in explaining how firms work, show its political strengths and conceptual limitations. In bringing rigor and sustained critical analysis to a topic of growing global significance, this truly interdisciplinary study represents a coherent and incisive contribution to anthropology, sociology, politics, history and economics, as it challenges these disciplines to come to grips with one of the most potent cultural symbols of postmodernity.