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Mussolini (Paperback)

by Denis Mack Smith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New edition edition (15 Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842126067
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842126066
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 77,507 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Mussolini who emerges from Denis Mack Smith's outstanding political biography is the supreme opportunist, more actor than statesman, with policies shaped chiefly by events. Hence the emphasis on appearance, the Napoleonic posturing, the monumental vanity. In the end Mussolini probably came to believe his own propaganda - that he was an infallible man of destiny, though his programme consisted of little more than aggression overseas, while at home he suppressed individual freedom and aped Hitler's racial laws. Mack Smith's compelling narrative follows this destiny to its infamous conclusion: the collapse of Mussolini's nation, and the destruction of its leader. 'The particular merit of Mack Smith's Mussolini is that it reveals his extraordinary bloodthirstiness as a war leader, combined with an equally extraordinary incompetence in the same role...one of the most severe indictments of Mussolini ever penned' Sunday Times

About the Author
Denis Mack Smith is the author of twenty volumes on Italian history, all of which have been translated into Italian, and he has sold in excess of a million books in that country. He is an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He has been awarded a dozen literary prizes as well as the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (for Mussolini's Roman Empire) and the Wolfson Prize. In 1996 he was appointed a Grand Officer of the Italian Order of Merit.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Compulsory for student and beginner alike, 25 Feb 1999
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This book is a must for all students studying fascism. It gives an in-depth analysis of the man who founded fascism and provides an insight into his life. Mack-Smith's expertise on the subject gives powerful quotes for essays and his accessible style allows the whole ability range to understand it. But it is not only for the student, since that same style allows anyone who is interested in the past century to understand someone who was much misunderstood. Someone who began life as an extreme Marxist, became a much less radical Conservative, before turning his hand to ultra-nationalist fascism is clearly an interesting person. By reading this book you will understand the man who was behind the ideal of the twentieth century: fascism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An insight into the man behind the facade of Italian Fascism, 2 Feb 2002
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Mack Smith's biography is a thorough account of Mussolini's life. Factually it is excellent in depicting life in Fascist Italy backed up with lots of evidence and statistics. However 'Mussolini' truly excels in Mack Smith's analytical interpretations of the events in Mussolini's life, offering the depth and knowlegde which makes this book a 'must have' for anybody studying Fascist Italy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, 14 April 2008
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A fabulous book on the Duce. Detailed, comprehensive, and very interesting. This is how historical biographies should be written.
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