Mussolini: A BiographyBenito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades. He was also an extremely able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen—including Winston Churchill and influential persons in the United States. This biography describes Mussolini's childhood; his education (including his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives); his World War I experiences and severe wounding; his involvement in, and eventual expulsion from the revolutionary Italian Socialist Party; his numerous love affairs, his early career as a journalist and his rise to power and brutal rule. |
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4 The Trentino | 29 |
5 The Libyan War | 42 |
6 Red Week | 51 |
7 The Break with Socialism | 59 |
8 The Interventionist | 69 |
23 The Fascist Regime | 201 |
24 The Duce at Work | 213 |
25 Depression and Disarmament | 225 |
26 Hitler | 235 |
27 Ethiopia | 245 |
28 Defying the World | 255 |
29 Victory | 262 |
30 The Spanish Civil War | 273 |
9 Corporal Mussolini | 74 |
10 The Fascio di Combattimento | 81 |
11 The Bolshevik Menace | 92 |
12 Castor Oil and Arson | 103 |
13 The Treaty of Pacification | 112 |
14 The General Strike | 121 |
15 The March on Rome | 129 |
16 Prime Minister | 138 |
17 Corfu | 149 |
18 Matteotti | 159 |
19 Consolidating the Dictatorship | 168 |
20 The Terrorists | 176 |
21 The Mafia | 187 |
22 The Concordat | 194 |
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