Maria Teresa Giusti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Management and Business Administration of University “G. d'Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches Contemporary History and Social History.

"This is the first major English-language study of the fate of the roughly twenty thousand Italian soldiers held by Soviet forces during and after the Second World War. It fills an important gap in the English-language literature on Axis prisoners in Soviet captivity, and deserves praise for painting a full picture of Italian prisoners of war (POWs) in the Soviet Union from capture to repatriation. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Soviet forced labor and incarceration, prisoners of war, Italians on the Eastern Front, or Italian-Soviet relations."

• Preface, Introduction: The Tragedy of the ARMIR, Chapter 1: Capture and Internment, Chapter 2: Russia and Prisoners of War, Chapter 3: In the Prison Camps Chapter 4: Antifascist Propaganda, Chapter 5: Repatriation Chapter 6: The Final Negotiations, Conclusion Appendix Notes, Photographs Index

Maria Teresa Giusti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Management and Business Administration of University “G. d'Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches Contemporary History and Social History.

"This is the first major English-language study of the fate of the roughly twenty thousand Italian soldiers held by Soviet forces during and after the Second World War. It fills an important gap in the English-language literature on Axis prisoners in Soviet captivity, and deserves praise for painting a full picture of Italian prisoners of war (POWs) in the Soviet Union from capture to repatriation. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Soviet forced labor and incarceration, prisoners of war, Italians on the Eastern Front, or Italian-Soviet relations."

• Preface, Introduction: The Tragedy of the ARMIR, Chapter 1: Capture and Internment, Chapter 2: Russia and Prisoners of War, Chapter 3: In the Prison Camps Chapter 4: Antifascist Propaganda, Chapter 5: Repatriation Chapter 6: The Final Negotiations, Conclusion Appendix Notes, Photographs Index

Maria Teresa Giusti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Management and Business Administration of University “G. d'Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches Contemporary History and Social History.

"This is the first major English-language study of the fate of the roughly twenty thousand Italian soldiers held by Soviet forces during and after the Second World War. It fills an important gap in the English-language literature on Axis prisoners in Soviet captivity, and deserves praise for painting a full picture of Italian prisoners of war (POWs) in the Soviet Union from capture to repatriation. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Soviet forced labor and incarceration, prisoners of war, Italians on the Eastern Front, or Italian-Soviet relations."

• Preface, Introduction: The Tragedy of the ARMIR, Chapter 1: Capture and Internment, Chapter 2: Russia and Prisoners of War, Chapter 3: In the Prison Camps Chapter 4: Antifascist Propaganda, Chapter 5: Repatriation Chapter 6: The Final Negotiations, Conclusion Appendix Notes, Photographs Index