Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943 by John GoochRequirements: .ePUB Reader, 23 MBOverview: A remarkable new history evoking the centrality of Italy to World War II, outlining the brief rise and triumph of the Fascists, followed by the disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign.While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained […]
Mussolini’s Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy by Stephen Gundle Requirements: .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: This book offers the first extended analysis of film stardom in Fascist Italy, focusing on the period from the start of sound cinema to the final end of Fascism in 1945. The author examines the development of an Italian […]
The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War by Philip MorganRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3 MBOverview: 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 […]
Lunch with Mussolini by Derek Hansen (Lunch with… #2)Requirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.8MBOverview: In the spring of 1945, with the end of the Second World War in sight, a German officer orders the reprisal shooting of eight woman in a small alpine village near Lake Como. Nearly fifty years later, in a suburb of Sydney, […]
From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship by Paul HollanderRequirements: .PDF reader, 29 MBOverview: During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship […]