Mussolini

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Dr Richard J. B. Bosworth (University of Western Australia)

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Bloomsbury
12 August 2010

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Fascism & Nazism; Political leaders & leadership

Series: ProQuest Statistical Abstract Series

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

By: Dr Richard J. B. Bosworth (University of Western Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 686g
ISBN: 9780340981733
ISBN 10: 0340981733
Series: ProQuest Statistical Abstract Series
Publication Date: 12 August 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Mussolini

'The definitive study of the Italian dictator.' Library Journal 'It is lucid, elegant and a pleasure to read.' The Daily Telegraph 'It is the best biography in English to date.' The Spectator 'Highly readable' BBC History Magazine 'a fresh, intelligent and judicious re-examination of Mussolini and the Fascist period.' New York Times Sunday Book Review

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