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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 Paperback - 2007

by Bosworth, R. J. B. (Author)

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The author brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the 20th century's largest, most notorious, and ultimately ruinous political experiments--Fascism--under Benito Mussolini and his henchmen.

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Penguin Books, 2007. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 720 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.75 inches.
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  • Title Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
  • Author Bosworth, R. J. B. (Author)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 736
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0143038567
  • ISBN 9780143038566 / 0143038567
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.54 x 1.57 in (21.49 x 14.07 x 3.99 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Mussolini, Benito, Fascism - Italy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 945.091

Summary

With Mussolini ’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political experiments. Il Duce’s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler’s first among them. But as Bosworth reveals, many Italians resisted its ideology, finding ways, ingenious and varied, to keep Fascism from taking hold as deeply as it did in Germany. A sweeping chronicle of struggle in terrible times, this is the definitive account of Italy’s darkest hour.

From the publisher

Originally published: Great Britain : Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 573-661) and index.

Media reviews

Shrewd, lucid, exhaustively documented and totally unsentimental. (David Schoenbaum, The New York Times)

With this insightful, comprehensive study, Bosworth secures his place as one of the two leading historians in the English-speaking world . . . of twentieth-century Italy. (Publishers Weekly, starred and boxed review)

A powerful work of scholarship, beautifully written, which should be read by anyone interested in twentieth-century Europe. (The Economist)

Citations

  • New York Times, 02/25/2007, Page 24

About the author

R. J. B. Bosworth is an Australian historian and author and a recognized expert on Fascist Italy. He taught history at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia, and was a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. A fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Bosworth is the author of Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 and The Oxford Handbook of Fascism.