Название: Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911-1912 (Osprey Men-at-Arms 534)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2020
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 50
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English
In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was the last North African (almost, the last African) region not yet conquered by a European colonialist power. Italy was a young country, ambitious for colonies, but had been defeated in Ethiopia in the 1890s. The Italian government of Giovanni Giolitti was keen to overwrite the memory of that failure, and to gain a strategic grip over the central Mediterranean by seizing Libya, just across the narrows from Sicily.
