xiv, 511 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-490) and index
Contents:
The furies and Benito Mussolini, 1944-1945 First of his class? The Mussolinis and the young Benito, 1883-1902 Emigrant and socialist, 1902-1910 The class struggle, 1910-1914 War and revolution, 1914-1919 The first months of Fascism, 1919-1920 The Fascist rise to power, 1920-1922 Government, 1922-1924 The imposition of dictatorship, 1924-1925 The man of providence, 1926-1929 Mussolini in his pomp, 1929-1932 The challenge of Adolf Hitler, 1932-1934 Empire in Ethiopia, 1935-1936 Crisis in Europe, 1936-1938 The approach of a second world war, 1938-1939 Germany's ignoble second, 1939-1941 First fall and feeble resurrection, 1942-1943 The ghost of Benito Mussolini, 1945-2010
