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Mussolini and the rise of fascism, Donald Sassoon

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Mussolini and the rise of fascism, Donald Sassoon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index

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platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mussolini and the rise of fascism

Medium

electronic resource eBook

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standards specificationsbibliography

Responsibility statement

Donald Sassoon

Review

"On the morning of 30 October 1922, the Italian Fascist party leader Benito Mussolini arrived in Rome - not on horseback as he may originally have fantasised, but on the overnight wagon-lit from Milan - to be appointed as Prime Minister by King Victor Emmanuel III. While the future Duce had been meditating in his sleeping compartment, tens of thousands of his black-shirted supporters had been converging on the capital, some by car, some by train, others walking

Summary

This was the so-called 'March on Rome', an episode that would assume mythical status as, over the following five years, a liberal democracy was brutally transformed into a fascist dictatorship." "Donald Sassoon focuses on the crises which led to Mussolini's rise, and examines the longer-term factors behind it. In doing so he sheds new light upon events that would soon cast Italy, and the whole of Europe, into a new, and ultimately tragic, era."--BOOK JACKET

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