Mussolini as diplomat
Subtitle: il Duce's Italy on the world stage
By: Richard Lamb.
Publisher: Fromm International
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 -- Political and social views; Italy -- Foreign relations -- 1922-1945; Italy -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Italy
Description: "Was Mussolini's alliance with Hitler foreordained? Could Italy have been kept out of the Second World War? Did the policy of England's Anthony Eden really push Mussolini into Hitler's arms instead of luring him back to his former policy of friendship with Great Britain? These are some of the intriguing questions which historian Richard Lamb asks about the Italian dictator's foreign policy toward Germany, on the one hand, and Britain and France on the other before he plunged his country into the disastrous alliance with Hitler."--BOOK JACKET. "Lamb's revisionist assessment of Mussolini's diplomatic blunders in his relations to the other European powers is based on British and Italian documents finally released after more than half a century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.