Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith
The Mussolini who emerges from Denis Mack Smith's outstanding political biography is the supreme opportunist, more actor than statesman, with policies shaped chiefly by events. Hence the emphasis on appearance, the Napoleonic posturing, the monumental vanity. In the end Mussolini probably came to believe his own propaganda - that he was an infallible man of destiny, though his programme consisted of little more than aggression overseas, while at home he suppressed individual freedom and aped Hitler's racial laws. Mack Smith's compelling narrative follows this destiny to its infamous conclusion: the collapse of Mussolini's nation, and the destruction of its leader. 'The particular merit of Mack Smith's Mussolini is that it reveals his extraordinary bloodthirstiness as a war leader, combined with an equally extraordinary incompetence in the same role...one of the most severe indictments of Mussolini ever penned' Sunday Times-
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Desiree
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Blenheim
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The Ottoman Empire
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Salisbury: Victorian Titan
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The Age of Illusion
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The Age Of Arthur
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Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade
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The Man on a Donkey
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Mary Tudor
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Portrait of an Age
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The Road to Mayerling
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The Fields Beneath
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Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
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Cecil Beaton
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Roman Warfare
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The Lady For Ransom
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Sex In Georgian England
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Duel of Eagles
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Around the World in Eighty Treasures
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Elizabeth and Leicester
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Winter Quarters
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Robert, Earl of Essex
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Daily Life of the Etruscans
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Family Favourites
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Three's Company
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Sailing Alone Around the World
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They Were Defeated
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The Duchess of Dino
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Garibaldi and the Thousand
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History of the Conquest of Peru
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The Princes in the Tower
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The Queen's Necklace
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Ancient Lives
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Celsius 7/7
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Fields of Fire
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At 12 Mr Byng Was Shot
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The Civilization of Ancient Crete
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Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
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Anthony Trollope
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Ascendancy to Oblivion
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Empire
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Lord Geoffrey's Fancy
Denis Mack Smith is the author of twenty volumes on Italian history, all of which have been translated into Italian, and he has sold in excess of a million books in that country. He is an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He has been awarded a dozen literary prizes as well as the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (for Mussolini's Roman Empire) and the Wolfson Prize. In 1996 he was appointed a Grand Officer of the Italian Order of Merit.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842126066 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842126067 |
| Title | Mussolini |
| Author | Denis Mack Smith |
| Series | Phoenix Press Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2001-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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