Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911–1912 Sacred Service Alongside an analysis of the

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Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911–1912 Sacred Service Alongside an analysis of theDescription By Gabriele Esposito Paperback This title chronicles and illustrates Italy's conquest of Libya during the Italian Turkish War, which involved not only the armies and navies of both sides, but also a number of tribal insurgents, and had major implications for both World Wars. In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in