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

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.