01843cam a2200325 i 4500 2579779190 TxAuBib 20251103120000.0 050817s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005052127 9780143038566 trade paper 32.00 0143038567 trade paper 32.00 (OCoLC)61353131 TxAuBib rda Bosworth, R. J. B. Mussolini's Italy [BOOK] : life under the dictatorship, 1915-1945 / R.J.B. Bosworth. Life under the dictatorship, 1915-1945. First American edition. New York : Penguin Books, 2006. xxvi, 692 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-661) and index. "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.". 20251103. Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945. Fascism Italy. Italy History 1914-1945.