Mussolini by Denis Mack Smith

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

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
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2001-11-15
Number of pages	448
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