Reviews for The Italian Dictatorship : Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism

The average rating for The Italian Dictatorship : Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-01-02 00:00:00 Kellyanne Phoenix An excellent introduction to the topic of Italian fascism. The book contains a bibliographical survey of the principal perspectives and interpretations that have been offered by leading scholars of a range of topics, and thus not only presents the various topics, but gives the reader the status questionis in each case. The analogous book on the German side, which I have not found as compelling (frankly), is Ian Kershaw's: I'm not enamored of Bosworth's more widely acclaimed book, though I don't know it that well: I find Bosworth a bit too glib and superficial for my tastes -- But the current book on Problems and Perspectives serves its function admirably.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-03 00:00:00 John Smith Where does all the money come from to pay for the expensive safe houses, multiple trips between Colombia, Paraguay, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Cuba... the food, the hotels, the weapons? This book reads like a thriller, but Alegria and Flakoll are purposely leaving out key details to paint their revolutionary "heroes" as ideologically pure. I suspect that the real truth is more complicated and that understanding the funding of the operation would create a very different nonfiction novel.