{"product_id":"9781472839428-armies-of-the-italian-turkish-war-conquest-of-libya-1911-1912","title":"Armies of the Italian-Turkish War","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConquest of Libya, 1911–1912\u003cbr\u003eContaining accurate full-colour artwork and unrivalled detail, this title chronicles Italy's conquest of Libya during the Italian-Turkish War, which had major implications for both World Wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItaly was a young country, ambitious for colonies, but had been defeated in Ethiopia in the 1890s. Giovanni Giolitti was keen to overwrite the memory of that failure, and to gain a strategic grip over the central Mediterranean by seizing Libya.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Italian expeditionary force that landed in October 1911 easily defeated the Ottoman division based in the coastal cities, incurring few losses. However, the Libyan inland tribes reacted furiously to the Italian conquest, and their insurgency cost the Italians thousands of casualties, locking them into the coastal enclaves during a winter stalemate which diminished Italian public enthusiasm for the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo retrieve Italian prestige the government launched a naval campaign in the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese – the last Turkish­ held archipelago in the Aegean – in April–May 1912, and landed troops to capture Rhodes. The army finally pushed inland in Libya in July– October (using systematic air reconnaissance, for the first time), and after brutal fighting the war ended in a treaty that brought Italy all it wanted, although though the Libyan tribes would not finally be quelled until after World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Containing accurate full-colour artwork and unrivalled detail, \u003ci\u003eArmies of the Italian-Turkish War \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a vivid insight into the troops involved in this pivotal campaign, including the tribal insurgents and the navies of both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32712559263841,"sku":"9781472839428","price":10.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29624519.jpg?v=1725608853","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472839428-armies-of-the-italian-turkish-war-conquest-of-libya-1911-1912","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}