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Mussolini

This title allows the reader to come closer to an appreciation of the life and actions of Mussolini and of the political world and society within which he operated. This biography paints a picture of brutality and failure, yet tempered with an understanding of him as a human being.
Print Book, English, c2002
Arnold, London, c2002
Biografía
584 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780340731444, 0340731443
1018126839
The furies and Benito Mussolini 1944-5; first of his class? the Mussolinis and the young Benito 1883-1902; emigrant and socialist 1902-1910; the class struggle 1910-4; war and revolution 1914-9; the first months of Fascism 1919-1920; the Fascist rise to power 1920-2; government 1922-4; the imposition of dictatorship 1924-5; the man of providence 1926-9; Mussolini in his pomp 1929-1932; the challenge of Adolf Hitler 1932-4; empire in Ethiopia 1935-6; crisis in Europe 1936-8; the approach of a Second World War 1938-9; Germany's ignoble second 1939-1941; first fall and feeble resurrection 1942-3; the ghost of Benito Mussolini 1945-2001.