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    Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943
    Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943
    Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943
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    Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943

    By Hope Hamilton

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    The tragic story of the Italians sent to the USSR by Mussolini—and the only division of elite mountain soldiers who didn’t completely perish.
     
    When Germany’s Sixth Army advanced to Stalingrad in 1942, its long-extended flanks were mainly held by its allied armies—the Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians. But as history tells us, these flanks quickly caved in before the massive Soviet counter-offensive that commenced that November, dooming the Germans to their first catastrophe of the war. However, the historical record also makes clear that one allied unit held out to the very end, fighting to stem the tide—the Italian Alpine Corps.
     
    As a result of Mussolini’s disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany, by the fall of 1942, 227,000 soldiers of the Italian Eighth Army were deployed on a 270 kilometer front along the Don River to protect the left flank of German troops intent on capturing Stalingrad. Sixty thousand of these were alpini, elite Italian mountain troops. When the Don front collapsed under Soviet hammer blows, it was the Alpine Corps that continued to hold out until it was completely isolated, then tried to fight its way out through both Russian encirclement and “General Winter,” to rejoin the rest of the Axis front. Only one of the three alpine divisions was able to emerge from the Russian encirclement with survivors. In the all-sides battle across the snowy steppe, thousands were killed and wounded and more were captured. By Summer 1946, ten thousand survivors returned to Italy from Russian POW camps.
     
    Based on extensive research and interviews with survivors, this is the first full English-language account of this complex, unsettling human story. Mussolini sent thousands of poorly equipped soldiers to a country far from their homeland, on a mission to wage war with an unclear mandate against a people who were not their enemies. Raw courage and endurance blend with human suffering, desperation, and altruism in this saga of the withdrawal from the Don lines, including the demise of thousands and survival of the few.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasemate Publishers
    Release dateJun 8, 2011
    ISBN9781612000138
    Sacrifice on the Steppe: The Italian Alpine Corps in the Stalingrad Campaign, 1942–1943

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