Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall by Spike Milligan (A book in the War (and Peace) Memoirs series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 119 mbOverview: Britannia rules the waves TA-RA, but on occasions she waives the rules and Spike is all set to liberate-gasp-Italy. In this fourth volume of war memoirs, Lance-Bombardier Milligan (Spike actually) continues his notorious […]
Hitler’s Raid to Save Mussolini: The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II by Greg AnnussekRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.4 MBOverview: As the Allied invasion of Italy wore on through the summer of 1943, Mussolini was unexpectedly overthrown and imprisoned by his own people in a remote mountaintop resort. Hitler was furious when he heard […]
Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America by John Patrick DigginsRequirements: .PDF reader, 13 MbOverview: Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early ’30s. John Diggins’ analysis of America’s reaction to an ideological phenomenon abroad reveals, he proposes, the darker side of American […]
Mussolini’s Death March: Eyewitness Accounts of Italian Soldiers on the Eastern Front (Modern War Studies) by Nuto RevelliRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2 MBOverview: In his quest for military glory, Benito Mussolini sent the Italian Eighth Army to the Eastern Front to help fight the Russians, only to have his forces routed within little more than a […]
Photographing Mussolini: The Making of a Political Icon by Alessandra Antola SwanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 94 MBOverview: This pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini’s image. It departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them […]