Mussolini's Shadow
Title | Mussolini's Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Moseley |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300079173 |
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Mussolini
Title | Mussolini PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Moseley |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | 456 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781589790957 |
Chronicles the last twenty months of the despot's life, beginning with his July 1943 arrest and overthrow. Rescued by Germans and forced by Hitler to resume the reins of leadership soon thereafter, the tyrant was an utterly miserable figure in the grip of anger, shame and depression.
Mussolini
Title | Mussolini PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Moseley |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2004-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1461625874 |
In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression. The German armed forces that had sustained his puppet government since its creation in September 1943 were being inexorably driven out of Italy, the frontiers of his Fascist republic were shrinking daily and Mussolini was aware that German military leaders were negotiating with the Allies behind his back in neutral Switzerland. Moseley's well-researched and highly engaging tome throws light on the last twenty months of the despot's life and culminates with the dramatic capture and execution of Mussolini (and his mistress Claretta Petacci) by partisans of the Italian resistance on April 28, 1945.
The Body of Il Duce
Title | The Body of Il Duce PDF eBook |
Author | Sergio Luzzatto |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 146688360X |
A brilliant young historian follows the odyssey of Mussolini's body in an original exploration of the history and legacy of Italian Fascism Bullet-ridden, spat on, butchered bloody: this was the fate of Il Duce, strung up beside his dead mistress in a Milan square, as reviled in death as he was adored in life. With Italy's defeat in World War II, the cult of Benito Mussolini's physical self was brought to its grotesque denouement by a frenzied, jeering crowd of thousands-one eerily similar to the cheering throngs that had once roared their approval beneath Il Duce's balcony. In this groundbreaking work, Sergio Luzzatto traces the fortunes of the Fascist dictator's body: from his charisma, virility, and magnetic domination of Fascist parades, to his humiliating execution, the ugly display of his remains, and beyond. Buried, exhumed, stolen, and hidden for ten years, Il Duce's corpse was finally laid to rest, a shrine for fanatical followers. Through this pursuit, Luzzatto shows how in a totalitarian state the body of the ruler comes to incarnate the nation. And from the indignities visited on Mussolini's corpse, Luzzatto crafts a subtle social and intellectual history of a country struggling to become a republic and free itself from the thrall of Fascism. Elegantly written and stunningly conceived, alive with never-before-published letters, diaries, and reports, The Body of Il Duce cuts a new and compelling path through twentieth-century history.
The Pope and Mussolini
Title | The Pope and Mussolini PDF eBook |
Author | David I. Kertzer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 587 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Fascism and the Catholic Church |
ISBN | 0198716168 |
The compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work that will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.
Italian Days, Arabian Nights
Title | Italian Days, Arabian Nights PDF eBook |
Author | Vittorio Palumbo |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 2011-05 |
Genre | Fascism |
ISBN | 9781937228002 |
Memoir set in Italy and Libya during World War II.
The Last Days of Mussolini
Title | The Last Days of Mussolini PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Moseley |
Publisher | History Press Limited |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Dictators |
ISBN | 9780750944496 |
'The Last Days of Mussolini' throws light on the last months of the despot's life & culminates with the dramatic capture & execution of Benito Mussolini & his mistress Clara Petacci by partisans of the Italian resistance on 28 April, 1945. The book offers evidence that Walter Audisio did in fact pull the trigger.