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

Bosworth, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200785 ISBN 13: 9781594200786

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2006

Synopsis

An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

Shrewd, lucid, exhaustively documented and totally unsentimental. (David Schoenbaum, The New York Times)

With this insightful, comprehensive study, Bosworth secures his place as one of the two leading historians in the English-speaking world . . . of twentieth-century Italy. (Publishers Weekly, starred and boxed review)

A powerful work of scholarship, beautifully written, which should be read by anyone interested in twentieth-century Europe. (The Economist)

About the Author:

R.J.B. Bosworth's prizewinning Mussolini was greeted on publication in 2002 as the definitive life of Il Duce. Bosworth is professor of history at the University of Western Australia and has been a Visiting Fellow at a number of institutions, including the Italian Academy at Columbia University, Clare Hall (Cambridge), Balliol College (Oxford), All Souls College (Oxford), and the University of Trento.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594200785
• ISBN 13: 9781594200786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 692