num_pages: 736
description: 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 20th 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.
language: English
title: Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
titlecomplete: Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
genres: 20th Century, History, World War II, Italian Literature, Italy, War, European History, Politics, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 317
places: Italy
publisher: Penguin Books