Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945

About this book

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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780143038566

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

February 1, 2007

Pages

736

Weight

22.6 oz

Subject

History