Book Description
The first study of Benito Mussolini's failure as a war leader.
Author : H. James Burgwyn
Publisher : Enigma Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1936274299
The first study of Benito Mussolini's failure as a war leader.
Author : Jasper Ridley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461741793
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades. He was also an extremely able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen—including Winston Churchill and influential persons in the United States. This biography describes Mussolini's childhood; his education (including his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives); his World War I experiences and severe wounding; his involvement in, and eventual expulsion from the revolutionary Italian Socialist Party; his numerous love affairs, his early career as a journalist and his rise to power and brutal rule.
Author : Sergio Luzzatto
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805080131
Examines the legacy of Italian fascism, discussing how Mussolini's execution, the display of his corpse, and his body's subsequent burial, concealment, and eventual enshrinement reflected the nation's struggle to become a republic.
Author : Brenda Haugen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756518929
This book recounts the life of Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy during World War II, who used intimidation, imprisonment, and murder to hold on to power but was finally executed by his own countrymen.
Author : R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143038566
With Mussolini ’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s first among them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted its ideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism from taking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle of struggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account of Italy’s darkest hour.
Author : Paolo Monelli
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Fascism
ISBN :
Author : Richard J. B. Bosworth
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1849660247
In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him away. Within 24 hours he was executed by his captors, joining those he sent early to their graves as an outcome of his tyranny, at least one million people. He was one of the tyrant-killers who so scarred interwar Europe, but we cannot properly understand him or his regime by any simple equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his life began modestly in the provinces; unlike them, he maintained a traditonal male family life, including both wife and mistresses, and sought in his way to be an intellectual. He was cruel (though not the cruellest); his racism existed, but never without the consistency and vigor that would have made him a good recruit for the SS. He sought an empire; but, in the most part, his was of the old-fashioned, costly, nineteenth century variety, not a racial or ideological imperium. And, self-evidently Italian society was not German or Russian: the particular patterns of that society shaped his dictatorship. Bosworth's Mussolini allows us to come closer than ever before to an appreciation of the life and actions of the man and of the political world and society within which he operated. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, this biography paints a picture of brutality and failure, yet one tempered with an understanding of Mussolini as a human being, not so different from many of his contemporaries. 'The definitive study of the Italian dictator.' - Library Journal
Author : Ray Moseley
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589790957
Chronicles the last twenty months of the despot's life, beginning with his July 1943 arrest and overthrow. Rescued by Germans and forced by Hitler to resume the reins of leadership soon thereafter, the tyrant was an utterly miserable figure in the grip of anger, shame and depression.
Author : Peter Neville
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fascism
ISBN : 9780415249904
Was Mussolini really the power-crazed cynic that many see him as? Was he a true revolutionary? Both ruthless and opportunistic, Benito Mussolini was driven by ideology and a desire to make Italy great. This survey is key to understanding one of the most fascinating 20th-century European dictators.
Author : H. James Burgwyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 3319761897
This book is a long overdue in-depth study of the Italian Social Republic. Set up in 1943 by Hitler in the town of Salò on Lake Garda and ruled by Mussolini, this makeshift government was a last-ditch effort to ensure the survival of Fascism, ending with the murder of Mussolini by partisans in 1945. The RSI was a loosely organized regime made up of professed patriots, apostles of law and order, and rogue militias who committed atrocities against presumed and real enemies. H. James Burgwyn narrates the history of the RSI, with vivid portraits of key figures and thoughtful analysis of how radical fascists managed to take the Salò regime from a dictatorship in Italy to a Continental nazifascismo, hand in hand with the Third Reich. This book stands as an essential bookend to the life of Mussolini, with new insights into the man who duped the Italian people and provoked a war that ended in catastrophic defeat.