Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John GoochRequirements: .ePUB reader, 5.5mbOverview: While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making […]
Mussolini, 2nd Edition by Peter NevilleRequirements: .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: This new edition of Peter Neville’s Mussolini traces and analyses the life of one of the most fascinating twentieth century European dictators, Benito Mussolini, while placing his life in its historic Italian context. Engaging and accessible, the Duce’s career is traced from his roots as […]
Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922–1940 (Cambridge Military Histories) by John GoochRequirements: .PDF reader, 19mbOverview: 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 […]
Mussolini: The Last 600 Days of IL Duce by Ray MoseleyRequirements: .PDF reader, 14mbOverview: In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression. The German armed forces that had sustained his puppet government since its creation in September 1943 were being inexorably driven out of Italy, the frontiers […]
Travel Guide to Europe, 1492: Ten Itineraries in the Old World by Lorenzo CamussoRequirements: .PDF reader, 24.3 MBOverview: Accompany the banker from Florence to Bruges, the French king’s archer from Edinburgh to Paris, the ambassador from Vienna to Moscow, and seven other travellers on journeys reconstructed by Italian historian Camusso. A high-quality volume full of […]