In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini
attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately
for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans
and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him
away. Within 24 hours he was executed by his captors, joining those
he sent early to their graves as an outcome of his tyranny, at
least one million people. He was one of the tyrant-killers who so
scarred interwar Europe, but we cannot properly understand him or
his regime by any simple equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like them,
his life began modestly in the provinces; unlike them, he
maintained a traditonal male family life, including both wife and
mistresses, and sought in his way to be an intellectual. He was
cruel (though not the cruellest); his racism existed, but never
without the consistency and vigor that would have made him a good
recruit for the SS. He sought an empire; but, in the most part, his
was of the old-fashioned, costly, nineteenth century variety, not a
racial or ideological imperium. And, self-evidently Italian society
was not German or Russian: the particular patterns of that society
shaped his dictatorship. Bosworth's Mussolini allows us to come
closer than ever before to an appreciation of the life and actions
of the man and of the political world and society within which he
operated. With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge
range of sources, this biography paints a picture of brutality and
failure, yet one tempered with an understanding of Mussolini as a
human being, not so different from many of his contemporaries. 'The
definitive study of the Italian dictator.' - Library Journal
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