Mussolini - Christopher Hibbert

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbertexplains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Mussoliniwas 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 thesixty-two years in between those two fateful afternoons Mussolini lived one of the most dramatic lives in modern history. Hibbert traces Mussolini'sunstoppable rise to power anddetails the nuances of hisfacist ideology. This book examines Mussolini's legacy and reveals why hecontinues to beboth revered and reviled by the Italian people.