Mussolini's Italy
Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945
$58.64
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2006
Summary
For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire generation of men militarized by fighting, Italy gave birth to a new form of political life- Fascism.
Richard Bosworth brings to life the period when Italians participated in a vast and ultimately ruinous political experiment under their dic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141012919 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141012919 |
| Author: | R.J.B. Bosworth |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
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”)
Shrewd, lucid, exhaustively documented and totally unsentimental. (David Schoenbaum, “The New York Times”)
About The Author
R.J.B. Bosworth
Richard Bosworth is one of the world’s leading writers on Fascist Italy whose life of Mussolini is the definitive account in English. He is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.
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