Filippe Cappellano: Italian Armoured & Reconnaissance Cars 1911-45 [2018] paperback IPOLI 'A splendid idea

'A splendid idea

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arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today

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with riots and revolutions on the horizon

Filippe Cappellano: Italian Armoured & Reconnaissance Cars 1911-45 [2018] paperback IPOLI 'A splendid ideaThe first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911 12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post war the army, focusing on the Alpine battlegrounds of Italy's northern borders, did not consider armoured cars suitable for reconnaissance duties. The experience of the Spanish Civil War