Author: Jasper Ridley:
Title: Mussolini
Description: Constable. 1997. lst edn. (3389) NEW HEAVY hardback - overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 430 pages. B.w. illustrations. Maps. Fine in navy boards with silver lettering to spine, in a fine d.w. Unread book from new stock. (Was £25.00). Describes his upbringing in the violent society of 19th century Italy and the revolutionary traditions of Italian Socialism; his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives; his imprisonment in Switzerland as an Anarchist tramp. He founded the Fascist Party, and ordered his squads to burn down the party offices of the Communists and Socialists during 4 years of virtual civil war. Becoming Prime Minister and dictator after the March on Rome, he showed his true colours as an empire-builder and eventually a racist and persecutor of the Jews. ISBN: 0-09-476370-4.

Keywords: Biography. Facisim. Italy.