Yugoslavian armored units 1940-1945

Paolo Crippa (23 April 1978) has cultivated his passion for Italian history since high school. His research interests are focused mainly in the field of military history and in particular on italian armored units from the 30s until the end of World War II. In 2006 he published his first volume, “I Reparti Corazzati della Repubblica Sociale Italiana 1943/1945”, the first organic research carried out and published in Italy on the subject. In 2007 he published “Duecento Volti della R.S.I.” and in 2011 “ Un anno con il 27° Reggimento Artiglieria Legnano”. He regularly contributes to several journals: Milites, New Historica, SGM - World War II, Batailes & Blindes, Armoured Vehicles and history of the twentieth century, Mezzi Corazzati, both as an author, or in collaboration with other researchers. He published with the editor Mattioli 1885 in 2014 “Italy 43 – 45 – Civil War improvised AFV's” (2014), "Italian AFV's of the Civil War 1943 - 1945" (2015) and "Italy 43 – 45 – AFV's and MV's of co-belligerent units" (2018). 

Luigi Manes (18th July 1966) has already published four books: “British tracked carriers of World War Two” (Soldiershop Publishing, 2019), “The Sherman medium tank in the European theater of operations” (Soldiershop Publishing, 2019), “Italy 43-45 – AFV’s and MV’s of co-belligerent units”(Mattioli 1885, 2018) with Paolo Crippa and “Carri armati Sherman in Sicilia” (Edizioni Ardite, 2018) with Lorenzo Bovi. He has written various articles, both for the military modeling magazine “Steel Art” and the website “ModellismoPiù”. Always interested in the history of Second World War, he has a great passion for the Sherman medium tank from an historical and technological point of view.