Fascism and WWII
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Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945
by James Holland  Publisher Comments During the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe – a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country’s mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino...
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The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy
by Sergio Luzzatto Publisher Comments A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini’s body in an “ingenious” exploration of the legacy of Italian Fascism (The New Yorker) Bullet-ridden, spat on, strung up in a Milan square: this was the fate of Il Duce, as...
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Fatal Silence the Pope the Resistance &
by Robert Katz Synopsis The dramatic story of the brutal occupation of Rome by the Germans after the fall of Mussolini in July 1943 up to the capture of the city by General Mark Clark in June 1944. Rome became a city of spies, double agents, informers, torturers, escaped Allied...
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Mussolini: A New Life
by Nicholas Farrell Synopsis This title aims to be a revelatory life of Mussolini, by a biographer, which draws on newly discovered material....
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A Need to Testify
by Iris Origo Publisher Comments Available again in this new edition, Origo's memoir tells the story of four friends, each of whom made various life sacrifices in the fight for non fascist Italy....
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Cianos Diary 1937-1943
by Galeazzo Ciano Synopsis Mussolini's Foreign Minister, and son in law, Count Ciano kept one of the most important and influential diaries to come out of World War II. It covers events from 1939 until 1943, finishing days before his own execution by a firing squad for conspiring...
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Mussolini (02 Edition)
by R. J. B. Bosworth Publisher Comments 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...
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Franca's Story
by Diane Kinman Book News Annotation Friends and neighbors Kinman and Martin collaborate closely in this memoir of what could have been a quiet, successful little life had it not been for the pandemonium in Italy during World War II. Mercati Martin became a successful artist in later...
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Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 (Cambridge Military Histories)
by John Gooch Publisher Comments This is the first authoritative study of the Italian armed forces and the relationship between the military and foreign policies of Fascist Italy from Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to the catastrophic defeat of 1940. Using extensive new research...
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Mussolini (Us)
by Jasper Ridley Publisher Comments Hardly the buffoon he is frequently made out to be, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was an able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen and who knew how to cooperate peacefully with foreign governments when it suited him. Mussolini, the first...
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Mussolini's Italy : Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 (06 Edition)
by Bosworth Publisher Comments With Mussolini s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworththe foremost scholar on the subject writing in Englishvividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth centurys most notorious political experiments. Il Duces Fascists were...
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Studies on the History of Society and Culture #42: Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945
by Ruth Ben Ghiat Publisher Comments Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism...
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Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano
by Ray Moseley Synopsis Based on the diaries of Mussolini's daughter Edda, this is the first biography in English about Mussolini's son-in-law, who was found guilty of treason and shot after he joined with dissident Fascists to oust Mussolini. 26 illustrations....
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The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War
by Philip Morgan Publisher Comments In this powerful history, Philip Morgan tells the dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan recounts how King Emanuel first ousted Mussolini and how...
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The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome
by Alessandro Portelli Publisher Comments On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Alessandro Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its...
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My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"
by Benito Mussolini Publisher Comments This memoir recounts the Italian dictator's years as an agitator, journalist, and soldier, the formation of the Fascist Party, the "March on Rome," and his early years in power. It articulates Il Duce's vision of his nation's return to glory and includes...
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Mussolini's Italy (Teach Yourself)
by David Evans Publisher Comments Teach Yourself History Each title in the history category of Teach Yourself makes complex events accessible when youre seeking an alternative to dry, academic texts. Incorporating gripping personal stories, our Teach Yourself History Books transform...
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Mussolini As Diplomat: Il Duce's Italy on the World Stage
by Richard Lamb Publisher Comments An eminent historian provides a revisionist assessment of the Italian dictator's diplomatic blunders from pre-World War II Europe, focusing primarily on his relations with Britain and secondarily with France, until his fatal miscalculation in 1945...
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The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy
by Sergio Luzzatto Publisher Comments A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a...
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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
by R. J. B. Bosworth Publisher Comments From one of the greatest historians in the field, a vivid, brilliant history of Fascist Italy, rulers and ruled life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century's largest, most notorious, and ultimately most ruinous...
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