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Emilio Lussu was an Italian MP and Professor of Political Economy,
who was imprisoned because of his opposition to Mussolini. In 1929
he escaped with two fellow prisoners from the island of Lipari.
Enter Mussolini combines an account of Mussolini's rise to power
and a critique of the Italian fascist movement that was influential
at a time when many observers were still sympathetic to fascism, at
least in its Italian guise. It was first published in English in
1936.
Emilio Lussu was an Italian MP and Professor of Political Economy,
who was imprisoned because of his opposition to Mussolini. In 1929
he escaped with two fellow prisoners from the island of Lipari.
Enter Mussolini combines an account of Mussolini's rise to power
and a critique of the Italian fascist movement that was influential
at a time when many observers were still sympathetic to fascism, at
least in its Italian guise. It was first published in English in
1936.
Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves,
and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most
affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in
Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it
reveals, in spare and detached prose, the almost farcical side of
the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army
on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy, the front so
poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For
Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on
impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full
of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and
episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the
incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacked waged
by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front,
Lussu's memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the
futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale
wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque, and adds an
astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
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