title: Handbook on the Italian Military Forces, 1943 (Reference Series, 23)
author: U. S. Army
description: Originally issued in 1943 as TME 30-420, this American intelligence branch handbook is a comprehensive review of the Italian Army and its Fascist Militia units during World War II. There are chapters on: Recruitment, pay and training; Organization of the difference arms of service; armament and equipment; and tactics.
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  FBP9: V1.1 (lit) Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Probably one of the best books I've read recently. Beautifully written, the
  scenes with the Mine and the Snails are some of the most humorous and
  lyrically romantic I've ever come across, and those of the war as cynically
  practical about the real atrocities of war as anything I've read. Both are
  more powerful for their proximity to each other. The only thing I don't like
  is the ending, which is just soppy! It was nice to proof in UK English for a
  change (and quite a lot of Greek!)...Enjoy...AFB
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to
  the Greek Island of Cephallonia of the occupying forces. At first he is
  ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical
  soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be
  civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician.
  
  
    
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