Examines the extent to which fascist regimes practised a similar style of war

Presents case studies of various fascist regimes at war, including Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Francoist Spain, Croatia, and Imperial Japan

Appeals to scholars and readers interested in twentieth-century history, fascism, war and society, and World War II

1. Introduction.- 2. From Great War to Fascist Warfare.- 3. National Socialist Assessments of Fascist Warfare (1935-1939).- 4. Civil War, Total War, Fascist War. Rebel Violence and Occupation Policies in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).- 5. Fascist Civil Warfare: Mussolini's Wars in Spain and Italy, 1936-1945.- 6. Cultures of Total Annihilation? The German, Italian, and Japanese Armies during the Second World War.- 7. Technology and Terror in Fascist Italy's Counterinsurgency Operations: Ethiopia and Yugoslavia, 1936-43.- 8. The Impact of the 'China experience' on Japanese Warfare in Malaya and Singapore .- 9. Fascist Warfare and the Axis Alliance: From Blitzkrieg to Total War.- 10. The German War in the East: The Radical Variant of Fascist War.- 11. The Evolution of Ustasha Mass Violence: Nation-Statism, Paramilitarism, Structure, and Agency in the Independent State of Croatia, 1941.- 12. From the Milizia Fascista Albanese to the 21st SS Skanderbeg-Division: Between Imposing Fascist Ideology and Adapting Local Warfare.