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The only known photo of General Nicolangelo Carnimeo, the defender of Keren, in East Africa, that I've been able to find, was from a biography of Amadeo Guillet. Gen Carnimeo

Thanks, guys. A few more from the aftermath of the famous battle for the Pont-Saint-Louis casemate on the Italian-French border near Menton, which cost Il Duce's army dearly. Nevertheless, the Italians were quick to propagandise it's eventual fall at the Armistice: Italian victory ceremony at...

I think that, like Italian POW's elsewhere, the regimen for those that declared for the Badoglio Government and the King was relaxed, but due to the situation in Italy, not released. Those that still supported Mussolini and the Fascists were held with the same confinement as before. In East...

Some rare photos of the Italian advance on the Alpine front, 1940: Italian troops crossing the French border in the Northern area Italy on the march Group of Italian soldiers with a captured French flag Italian troops issue rations to French POW's

Here's a very interesting site that details the lives, conditions and escapes of Italian prisoners in Kenya, captured after the defeat of the AOI in 1941. They were held in several locations in the country, and there were also camp's in British Somaliland, Tanganyika (Tanzania) and Uganda. The...

Yes, I think that's a fair assessment. There was no concentrated point of pressure from the attackers, and the Italians, not so much picked up the rifle by the tip of the bayonet, but tried to hammer on granite with a chisel.

Perhaps a controversial question, but one that I think needs serious consideration. Most, if not all, historians consider the Battle of the Alps a French victory and, indeed, strategically it was (or at least an Italian failure). But, a study of the actual fighting, the conditions involved and...