Mussolini: A Biography - Hardcover

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Buchbeschreibung Half cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Good condition. 1st American edition. Jacket design by Gun Larson. Set in Times Roman, designed by Stanley Morison. Sunday Times: The Mussolini who emerges from Denis Mack Smith's outstanding political biography is the supreme opportunist, more actor than statesman, with policies shaped chiefly by events. Hence the emphasis on appearance, the Napoleonic posturing, the monumental vanity. In the end Mussolini probably came to believe his own propaganda - that he was an infallible man of destiny, though his programme consisted of little more than aggression overseas, while at home he suppressed individual freedom and aped Hitler's racial laws. Mack Smith's compelling narrative follows this destiny to its infamous conclusion: the collapse of Mussolini's nation, and the destruction of its leader. 'The particular merit of Mack Smith's Mussolini is that it reveals his extraordinary bloodthirstiness as a war leader, combined with an equally extraordinary incompetence in the same role.one of the most severe indictments of Mussolini ever penned. Contents: 1). Youth. 2). The socialist. 3). War and peace. 4). The fascist movement. 5). The conquest of power. 6). The Matteotti crisis. 7). Fascist government at work. 8). Mussolini as leader. 9). Consolidation and achievement. 10). In search of strife. 11). War policy. 12). The axis with Germany. 13). Alliance with Germany. 14). The second World War. 15). Defeat 1940-43. 16). The fall from power. 17). The republic of Salò. With notes. list of works cited in the notes and index. 21 illustrations. Denis Mack Smith (*1920) is an English historian, specialising in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for studies of Garibaldi and Cavour and of Mussolini, and for his single-volume Modern Italy: 'A Political History'. He was named Grand Official of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1996. XIV + 429 + (1) pag. Size: 24cmx16.5cm. Artikel-Nr. 030314

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