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  • Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography is generally considered the standard these days.

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    Mussolini

    February 10,
    This is the third book about Mussolini I have read from a British historian and it is definitely the worst. The style is odd, as Ridley appears to be going for chronological, but it comes across as fragmented and often he will double back to return to an event that happened earlier (for example, he explains how Italy won the Italo-Abyssinian War but then goes back to discuss the Hoare-Laval Plan). There is some genuinely good information to be learned from this book, hence the two stars. However, unlike Richard Lamb's "Mussolini as Diplomat" and Christopher Hibbert's "Rise and Fall of Il Duce", Ridley throws in very clumsy modern criticisms of Mussolini that komma across as politically motivated (which should come as no surprise, given that Ridley ran with the Labour Party).
    Ridley makes some statements that one will find frustrating if they go into this knowing anything about Fascist Italy. For example, he states at the end that Mussolini didn't want to surre
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    Mussolini

    The career of Benito Mussolini and the Fascist regime that became almost indistinguishable from it seem at last to be emerging from undeserved obscurity. For nearly two decades after his death, Mussolini’s role in contemporary history was blurred, overshadowed by the memory of an inglorious end. The Italian dictator’s gradual eclipse by Hitler, his repudiation in at the hands of his own people, his unworthy reincarnation as a puppet ruler in the North—the whole sequence epitomized by the final macabre scene of a horribly swollen corpse hanging upside down in a Milan square—all this so reduced Mussolini’s historical dimensions that he remained in our minds as little more than a figure of folly, of farce, of small-scale tyranny, or, at the best, of pathos. We forgot that the Italian Duce had ruled nearly twice as long as Hitler, that his had been the original Fascist system which gave the subsequent European movement its name and character

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    On October 31, , he entered office as the Prime Minister of Italy. He was 39 years of age. In the general election, his party, then known as the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, had received 29, votes out of million cast. How, then, did this ex-soldier, a corporal in the Italian Army in World War inom, rise to head the government of one of Europe&#;s largest nations a single year after that election? Therein lies the extraordinary tale Antonio Scurati tells in M: Son of the Century. The book, half-journalism, half-fiction, is tantamount to a biography of Benito Mussolini.

    Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

    A fictionalized biography of Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini was a veteran of nine months in the trenches on his country&#;s northern border in its war against its erstwhile ally, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a journalist, the combative editor of the revolutionary Socialist newspaper, Avanti. But when he advocated Italy&#;s entry into the war in , the Socialist Party had