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Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
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Books
Italian Medium Tanks 1939-45 by F. Cappellano & P.P. Battistelli
Copyright 2012 Osprey Publishing Ltd.

Italian Light Tanks 1919-45 by F Cappellano & P.P. Battistelli Copyright 2012 Osprey Publishing Ltd.

The Italian Army in North Africa by Walter S. Zapotoczny Copyright 2018

Iron Arm - The Mechanization of Mussolini’s Army 1920-1940 by John Joseph Timothy Sweet Copyright 1980

The Italian Army 1940-45 : Africa 1940-43 by Philip Jowett
Publisher Bloomsbury USA 2001