Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera: Italy’s Occupation of France by Emanuele Sica (History of Military Occupation)Requirements: .PDF reader, 3 mbOverview: In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army’s 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good […]
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: A Biography by Frances Stonor SaundersRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5 MBOverview: At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome’s Campidoglio Square and shot Mussolini at point-blank range. He escaped virtually unscathed. Violet Gibson, who expected to be thanked for her action, was […]
Mussolini (New Edition) by Richard J. B. BosworthRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5 MBOverview: Mussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II, but we can’t properly understand him or his regime by any facile equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his life began modestly in the provinces; […]
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian GoeschelRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 339.5 MBOverview: From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini’s […]
Freeing Mussolini: Dismantling the Skorzeny Myth in the Gran Sasso Raid by Óscar González López (Oscar Gonzalez Lopez)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 33.5 MBOverview: The untold inside story of the audacious Nazi plot to rescue il Duce from an Allied prison. The operation to free Mussolini, who was being held prisoner in a high mountain hotel on […]