books about: mussolini

books about: mussolini

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Mussolini

Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 (Cambridge Military ...

John Gooch

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Best summary to date of Fascist Italian military policy
This is an excellent account of the military situation in Italy leading up to World War II. There have been many myths about the Italian military which are laid to rest with this book. First and foremost the structure of the Italian military is analyzed in detail and ...

The Gospel According to John I-XII (Anchor Bible Series, Vol. 29)

Raymond E. Brown

Anchor Bible, 1966

A solid, insightful and intelligent commentary.
Raymond Brown is an incredible scholar and has presented one of the finest commentaries written on the gospel according to John. Both introductory notes and main commentary are fluid and reveal significant insight. The book is an absolute pleasure to read regardless ...

Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Picador, 2007

Honest, Insightful and Thought Provoking
Mr. Schivelbusch, in this remarkably well researched and startling book draws parallels between the programs and leadership styles of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Franklin Roosevelt. He shows how many similarities there were to be found between each of these very ...

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Jonah Goldberg

Doubleday, 2008

This book will change your opinion about fascism, FDR, and liberals.
Liberals are fascists. They are *not* Nazis, as Goldberg repeats thought out the book. They are fascists. All Nazis are fascist. Not all fascists are Nazi. Being a fascist is not about hating Jews but its about government control on daily life. It's a bold ...

Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate

Webster Griffin Tarpley

Progressive Press, 2008

Revised edition
This edition has two new articles that are not in the June 2nd first edition . Because of different typesetting it has fewer pages, but it has more material than the first edition.

Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce
Christopher Hibbert

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday afternoon in 1883 in a village in central Italy. On a Saturday afternoon in 1945 he was shot by Communist partisans on the shores of Lake Como. In the ...

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

R. J. B. Bosworth

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

Excellent
This is an ambitious and successful attempt to write the social history of Fascism. Italian Fascism, Bosworth reminds us, controlled Italy for almost a generation, a considerably longer period than the disastrous experiment of Nazi rule of Germany. How was Fascism ...

Iron Hulls Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa

Ian Walker

The Crowood Press, 2006

A Breath of Fresh Air
This book by Ian Walker is the best treatment of the subject in English I have ever seen. For those who read this book with an open mind, Walker succeeds admirably in what I believe was his aim, i.e., to put the performance of the Italian armored forces in North ...

My Rise And Fall

Benito Mussolini

Da Capo Press, 1998

Intriguing history, but little theory.
I bought this book on the belief that it would explain to me the very essence of Italian Fascism. Although some important themes and ideas of Mussolini's fascism were discussed, I was disappointed with the lack of detail and expansion. However, I was enthralled by ...

Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler

Roger Griffin

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Understanding the core of the matter
Palingenesis has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance. Roger Griffin understands the political ideology of Fascism as a palingenetic ideology, primarily as a result of the notion that Fascism itself is the rebirth of an empire in ...

My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism" (Dover Books on History, Political and ...

Benito Mussolini

Dover Publications, 2006

Il Duce
This is the man who started all the fascism in Europe and around the world. Even Hitler was impressed by him and copied his system.. This book is necessary to read and understand one of the most influential leaders of the Fascist movement, people to not appreciate his ...

Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe (Occupation in Europe Series)

Berg Publishers, 2007

This book examines the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to survive. Survival included dealing with hunger, having to work for the enemy, women having relationships with soldiers, preservation of culture in a fascist environment, resistance, ...

Mussolini

Dennis Mack Smith

Knopf, 1982

The Definitve Work
This is still the most comprehensive work on the life of Mussolini to date. The reveiwers who claim it has not been "well researched" must not have read past the third page, to say nothing of the bibliography, one of the most impressive and detailed I have ever seen ...

Mussolini: A New Life

Nicholas Farrell

Phoenix, 2005

An excellent reassement
Mussolini was the father of modern fascism, now a movement roundly and rightly condemned for the results it would have later in Germany. But the truth is that Fascisms real successes were in Italy and Spain where it stemmed the tide of uncontrolled anarchism and ...

The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini (Cambridge Perspectives in History)
Allan Todd

Cambridge University Press, 2002

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The European dictatoprships provides a well-balanced account of the three main European dictatorships in the period 1919-45. Allan Todd explores Stalinism, Fascism and Nazism in detail, dealing with the establishment and maintenance of power, the nature of party and ...