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Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler
Roger Griffin
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2007
Understanding the core of the matter
Palingenesis has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance. Roger Griffin understands the political ideology of Fascism as a palingenetic ideology, primarily as a result of the notion that Fascism itself is the rebirth of an empire in ...
The Gospel According to John I-XII (Anchor Bible Series, Vol. 29)
Raymond E. Brown
Anchor Bible
, 1966
A solid, insightful and intelligent commentary.
Raymond Brown is an incredible scholar and has presented one of the finest commentaries written on the gospel according to John. Both introductory notes and main commentary are fluid and reveal significant insight. The book is an absolute pleasure to read regardless ...
Iron Arm: The Mechanization of Mussolini's Army, 1920-1940 (Stackpole Military History)
John Joseph Timothy Sweet
Stackpole Books
, 2006
More than just a history of the development of Italian armor
This book provides excellent background on the socio-economic-military conditions that prevented Italy from being a truly great power by 1939. The empahsis is on the development of the Italian tank force, but a large part of the book explains what deterred it. For ...
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday
, 2008
A Deft Expose on the Hidden History of Fascism and Its Connection with Modern American Liberalism
Jonah Golberg's book is a deft expose of the hidden history of fascism in America, tracing its roots back to the leftist totalitarian regimes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. Golberg connects all the arcane, hidden, obscured dots to give the reader a factual account of ...
Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce
Christopher Hibbert
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2008
With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born on a Sunday afternoon in 1883 in a village in central Italy. On a Saturday afternoon in 1945 he was shot by Communist partisans on the shores of Lake Como. In the ...
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
R. J. B. Bosworth
Penguin (Non-Classics)
, 2007
Excellent
This is an ambitious and successful attempt to write the social history of Fascism. Italian Fascism, Bosworth reminds us, controlled Italy for almost a generation, a considerably longer period than the disastrous experiment of Nazi rule of Germany. How was Fascism ...
Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Picador
, 2007
Honest, Insightful and Thought Provoking
Mr. Schivelbusch, in this remarkably well researched and startling book draws parallels between the programs and leadership styles of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Franklin Roosevelt. He shows how many similarities there were to be found between each of these very ...
Obama - The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate
Webster Griffin Tarpley
Progressive Press
, 2008
A book on fascism and the Brzezinski group, with a warning for where Obama's "Change" could lead us
This is not a book bashing Obama because he doesn't wear an american flag pin on his suit or because he might be a closet Muslim. Instead, this book tackles the history of fascism, the geopolitical strategy of the Brzezinski group, the politics of Obama's main ...
Mussolini and his Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940 (Cambridge Military ...
John Gooch
Cambridge University Press
, 2007
Best summary to date of Fascist Italian military policy
This is an excellent account of the military situation in Italy leading up to World War II. There have been many myths about the Italian military which are laid to rest with this book. First and foremost the structure of the Italian military is analyzed in detail and ...
My Rise And Fall
Benito Mussolini
Da Capo Press
, 1998
Intriguing history, but little theory.
I bought this book on the belief that it would explain to me the very essence of Italian Fascism. Although some important themes and ideas of Mussolini's fascism were discussed, I was disappointed with the lack of detail and expansion. However, I was enthralled by ...
Mussolini: His part in my downfall
Spike Milligan
Joseph
, 1978
Good old Spike has done it again.
Truly a funny guy, Spike has a way of letting you look at the harsh realities of WWII in a brand new way. Much of his humor gets lost in the shuffle, but what comes through is fabulously funny and just a simple joy to read.
Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century (European History Series (Arlington ...
Bruce F. Pauley
Harlan Davidson
, 2003
An insightful overview of the three dictators.
This is a great overview of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. In this book Pauley takes the reader through the evolution of the totalitarian dictators. He starts of by defining the terms under which each ideology fell: Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and Fascism. From here he ...
Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought
A. James Gregor
Princeton University Press
, 2006
One of the best analysis's of Italian Fascism to date
A. James Gregor has written one of the definitive work on the nature and Ideology of Fascism by taking a common sense approach all to rare in academia. He goes directly to Fascist theorists on economics, sociology and philosophy, and forms a coherent image of a ...
The Jews in Mussolini's Italy: From Equality to Persecution (George L. Mosse Series)
Michele Sarfatti
University of Wisconsin Press
, 2006
Often overshadowed by the persecution of Jews in Germany, the treatment of Jews in fascist Italy comes into sharp focus in this volume by Italian historian Michele Sarfatti. Using thorough and careful statistical evidence to document how the Italian social climate changed from relatively just to irredeemably prejudicial, Sarfatti begins with a ...
Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe (Occupation in Europe Series)
Berg Publishers
, 2007
This book examines the social experience of occupation in German- and Italian-occupied Europe, and in particular the strategies ordinary people developed in order to survive. Survival included dealing with hunger, having to work for the enemy, women having relationships with soldiers, preservation of culture in a fascist environment, resistance, ...
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