`Fascist Italy at War: 1939¿1943¿ examines in depth Mussolini¿s expansionist aims in the Balkans and North Africa; Italy¿s brazen seizure of Albania; Italy¿s belated entry into WWII; Italy¿s disastrous military operations in Egypt, Greece, Yugoslavia, and the U.S.S.R.; the Allied invasions of Northwest Africa and Sicily; and the fall of Fascism.