Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship,

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

With Mussolini â€™s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworthâ€”the foremost scholar on the subject writing in Englishâ€”vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most notorious political experiments. Il Duceâ€™s Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitlerâ€™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 Italyâ€™s darkest hour.

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