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Mussolini
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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 an...
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, gave him away. Within 24 hours he was executed by his captors, joining those he sent early to their graves as an outcome of his tyranny, at least one million people. He was one of the tyrant-killers who so scarred interwar Europe, but we cannot properly understand him or his regime by any simple equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them, his lif
Details
- Creator
- R.J.B. Bosworth
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New edition
- London : Bloomsbury, 2010
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (544 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780340809884, 1849664447, 0340809884
- OCLC
- ocn870588278
- First published by Hodder Education in 2002.
- Cover; Contents; List of illustrations and maps; Preface; Introduction to the new edition (2010); Introduction to the first edition (2002); 1 The Furies and Benito Mussolini, 1944-1945; 2 First of his class? The Mussolinis and the young Benito, 1883-1902; 3 Emigrant and socialist, 1902-1910; 4 The class struggle, 1910-1914; 5 War and revolution, 1914-1919; 6 The first months of Fascism, 1919-1920; 7 The Fascist rise to power, 1920-1922; 8 Government, 1922-1924; 9 The imposition of dictatorship, 1924-1925; 10 The Man of Providence, 1926-1929; 11 Mussolini in his pomp, 1929-1932
- 12 The challenge of Adolf Hitler, 1932-193413 Empire in Ethiopia, 1935-1936; 14 Crisis in Europe, 1936-1938; 15 The approach of a Second World War, 1938-1939; 16 Germany's ignoble second, 1939-1941; 17 First fall and feeble resurrection, 1942-1943; 18 The ghost of Benito Mussolini, 1945-2010; Notes; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Subjects
- Visits of state -- Germany -- History -- Pictorial works.
- Germany -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Pictorial works.
- Italy -- Foreign relations -- Germany -- Pictorial works.
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Travel -- Germany -- Pictorial works.
- Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Pictorial works.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Pictorial works.