| Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce Contributor(s): Hibbert, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230606059 ISBN-13: 9780230606050 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $25.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2008 Annotation: 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 sixty-two years in between those two fateful afternoons Mussolini lived one of the most dramatic lives in modern history. Hibbert traces Mussolini's unstoppable rise to power and details the nuances of his facist ideology. This book examines Mussolini's legacy and reveals why he continues to be both revered and reviled by the Italian people. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - History | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.10 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 sixty-two years in between those two fateful afternoons Mussolini lived one of the most dramatic lives in modern history. Hibbert traces Mussolini's unstoppable rise to power and details the nuances of his facist ideology. This book examines Mussolini's legacy and reveals why he continues to be both revered and reviled by the Italian people. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hibbert, Christopher: - Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008), "a pearl of biographers" (New Statesman), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Disraeli (St. Martin's Press), The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, The English: A Social History, and Cavaliers and Roundheads. He lived in Oxfordshire, England. |