Peter Neville

This thoroughly researched new appraisal of Mussolini offers a sympathetic, but very critical, assessment of this gifted, but fatally flawed icon of twentieth century history. This outstanding short study will be of inestimable value to the student and general reader alike. Andrew Crozier, Senior lecturer and Jean Monner Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Europe, Queen Mary, University of London. Was Mussolini really the power-crazed cynic that many see him ...