Fascist Italy

by Alan Cassels

Book Overview

The experience of Fascism in Italy was a sorrowful national trauma mixed with episodes of comic opera. This excellent book is an overall history of Fascist Italy. Mussolini's personal influence in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882958283
• ISBN13: 9780882958286
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Superficial, but a good intro

Alan Cassels offers a very superficial look at Mussolini's Italy, as the main part of the text is only 100 pages long, but he proves to have a solid grasp on all the scholarship in this area, which he presents in a lengthy bibliographical chapter at the end of the book. Much of that scholarship is either overly biased (focusing exclusively on the sillier elements of fascist spectacle and Mussolini's persona) or too apologetic, but Cassels manages to avoid either trap. Though written in 1985, "Fascist Italy" remains a decent introduction to the topic, and an excellent launching-off point for further study.