Mussolini's Italy by Richard J B Bosworth

Mussolini's Italy by Richard J B Bosworth

For Hitler when he came to power Mussolini was the great inspiration and model fascism, totalitarianism, the charismatic ruler, terror and intimidation were all worked out and perfected in Italy many years before they came to Germany. And yet, as Richard Bosworth shows in his brilliant new book, there were huge differences between the two regimes, even if ultimately they both went down in flames together. Italy was in many other ways both the pioneer and goad for a European instability that fed ultimately into the Armageddon of 1939-45. Devastated and embittered by its experience of the First World War, Italy under Mussolini subverted, damaged and besmirched any possible democratic or peaceful future. And yet for many ordinary Italians (and this book, among other things, is wonderful on the lives and feelings of ordinary people all over the peninsula and islands) the dictatorship never had the stranglehold on their lives and minds that Mussolini and his associates dreamt that they had.

Richard Bosworth is one of the world's leading writers on Fascist Italy whose life of Mussolini is the definitive account in English. He is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.

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ISBN 13	9780713996975
ISBN 10	0713996978
Title	Mussolini's Italy
Author	Richard J B Bosworth
Series	Allen Lane History S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2005-09-29
Number of pages	720
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