TARGET: ITALY: THE SECRET WAR AGAINST MUSSOLINI 1940-1943
Book ID/图书代码： 00200014B69319
English Summary/英文概要： Drawing on long-classified documents, Target: Italy is the official history of the war waged by Britain’s Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Italy. It is the first full account of SOE’s clandestine efforts to strike at Italy and sever its alliance with Nazi Germany, uncovering missions as remarkable as a plot to assassinate Mussolini and plans to arm the Mafia.
It is also the first in-depth history of SOE’s attempts at causing trouble inside an enemy country as opposed to an enemy-occupied one, issuing a sobering reminder of the terrible dangers that foreign agencies can encounter when trying to encourage resistance to powerful authoritarian regimes.
This is a compelling tale of desperate daring and sacrifice, climaxing in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war: the delicate and dramatic dealings between the Allies and the Italians that led to Italy’s surrender in 1943.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《目标：意大利》基于长期以来的保密文件，实则为英国特别行动委员会对意大利法西斯分子贝尼托•墨索里尼所采取战争行为的官方版历史记载。本书全面记录了特别行动小组在意大利进行斗争的秘密活动: 切断其与纳粹德国的联系、揭开至关重要的行动任务，如计划暗杀墨索里尼，武装意大利黑手党等。
同时，本书也是对特别行动组的深度描绘，他们一边尝试在这一军事国家内部引起混乱，同时反对军事占领，使其清醒的认识到：当国外机构试图鼓励秘密抵抗运动去面对强权政治时，其所可能面临的可怕危险。
这是一个关于绝望中萌生出的勇气与牺牲的动人故事，在战争中最精彩的华章中达到高潮：1943年同盟国与意大利人民间齐心一致的努力最终导致了意大利法西斯势力的投降。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 罗德里克•贝利是牛津大学的一名历史学家，同时也是一名研究二战时期秘密抵抗运动和暗中战事活动的专家。其第一部作品《荒野之地》讲述了特别行动组在轴心国占领的巴尔干地区的经历。2012年，他被任命为记录特别行动组与意大利法西斯抵抗运动的官方记录人。他是爱丁堡大学和牛津大学的毕业生，并曾担任牛津圣安东尼大学阿拉斯泰尔之角成员。此后作者一直与英国军队驻扎在阿富汗地区。
Roderick Bailey is an historian at the University of Oxford and a specialist in the study of resistance and clandestine warfare. His first book, The Wildest Province, based on his PhD was an acclaimed account of SOE exploits in the Axis-occupied Balkans. In 2012 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to write the official history of SOE’s war on Fascist Italy. A graduate of Edinburgh and Oxford Universities and former Alastair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, he has also served in Afghanistan with the British Army.
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