Hitler's Italian Allies

Fascist Italy''s ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler''s failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy''s defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own unaided forces in the entire Second World War was a dusty and useless corner of Africa, British Somaliland. And Italy''s forces dissolved in 1...