This powerful study offers a vivid and often disturbing account of the Italian army's occupation of Slovenia during World War II. It moves from the decision of the Italians to annex Slovenia in 1941, through local resistance and brutal reaction against civilians, to the army's ultimate collapse following Italy's defection from the Axis.

Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi is a scholar at the German Historical Institute in Rome, Italy. He is a specialist in the history of Fascism. Among his many publications are Noi non sappiamo odiare: L'esercito italiano tra fascismo e democrazia (2010) and (edited, with Thomas Schlemmer and Lutz Klinkhammer) Die 'Achse' im Krieg (2010). Elizabeth Burke is an associate of Nuovo Traduttore Letterario in Florence, Italy, and writes women's fiction under the name Betsy Burke. Anthony Majanlahti is an historian, writer and translator. His most recent book, written with Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, is Roma occupata 1943-1944. Itinerari, storie, immagini (2010).