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[1883-1945]
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 | "The Life of Benito Mussolini" [English 1925, Italy 1926] by Margherita G. Sarfatti, Foreword by Benito Mussolini English translation by Frederic Whyte published in 1925, published the following year in Italy with the title "Dux"; the book was a success: 17 editions were printed and it was translated into 18 languages. Kessinger Publng 9x6 pb [9/2010] for $27.16 Kessinger Publng pb [2004] for $75.67 {sic} Kessinger Publng 9x6 hardcover [9/2010] for $39.16 Thornton Butterworth 8¾x5¾ hardcover [1926] out of print/used | |
 | "The Truth About Mussolini: " [Little Blue Book #1088, 1926] by Miriam Allen deFord [1888-1975] original publisher Haldeman-Julius Co. [1919-76] and their "Little Blue Book" series 64-page Haldeman-Julius Co. 5x3½ pb [1926] long out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini: The Man of Destiny" [1928] by Vittorio E. De Fiori, Translated by Mario A. Pei AMS Press, Inc. 7x5¼ hardcover [6/79] out of print/used Dutton hardcover [1928] long out of print/scarce J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. hardcover [1928] long out of print/scarce | |
 | "Mussolini and The Pope: The Comedy of The Blackshirt and The Blackmailer" [Little Blue Book #1501, 1929] by Joseph McCabe [1867-1955] original publisher Haldeman-Julius Co. [1919-76] and their "Little Blue Book" series Hassell Street Press pb [9/2021] for $0.00 Hassell Street Press hardcover [9/2021] for $0.00 1929 edition is available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive | |
 | "Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays, Illustrated" [1932] by British author D.H. Lawrence [1885-1930] Lawrence travelled through the countryside of Tuscany with his friend Earl Brewster during the spring of 1927; the resulting seven travel essays contrasted the life-affirming culture of the Etruscans with the shabbiness of Benito Mussolini's Italy; published posthumously; Cambridge editions edited by Simon-etta de Filippis book entry at Wikipedia 15 essays: 453-page Kindle Edition from RosettaBooks [2/2019] for $7.99 15 essays: 464-page Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [7/2002] for $48.72 15 essays: 464-page Cambridge Univ Press 9x5¾ hardcover [10/92] out of print/used "Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy" [2011] Foreword by Michael Squires 176-page Tauris Parke 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2011] for $18.95 222-page 1933 edition available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive | |
 | "The Official Life of Benito Mussolini: His Youth, Emigration, Life As A Socialist Leader and Soldier, His Peace With The Church, Axis Partnership, and Conquest of Albania" [1939] by Giorgio Pini Verlag Paul Schmidt German-language pb [1942] out of print/scarce Verlag Fόr Sozialpolitik German-language hardcover [1941] out of print/scarce earlier Italian edition "Benito Mussolini: La Sua Vita Fino ad Oggi Dalla Strada al Potere" [1926] by Giorgio Pini L. Cappelli pb [1926] out of print/used | |
 | "La Vida con Mi Padre (The Life of My Father)" [1958] by {son} Vittorio Mussolini [1916-97], Spanish translation by Jesϊs Lσpez Pacheco subtitle: "Relato Apasionante de La Intimidad de Duce (Passionate Story of The Intimacy of The Duce)" Colleccion Vortice pb [1958] import/SOLD OUT ! Colleccion Vortice pb [1958] import/scarce | |
 | "Mussolini: A Biography ... the wild adventure that was his life" [1961] by Laura Fermi, Preface by U.A. Grimaldi Univ Chicago Press/Phoenix Books 8x5¼ pb [3/61] out of print/used Univ Chicago Press/Phoenix Books 8x5¼ pb [3/61] out of print/used Univ Chicago Press/Phoenix Books 6¾x4¼ hardcover [3/61] out of print/used Univ Chicago Press/Phoenix Books 8¼x5¾ hardcover [3/61] out of print/used Ediciones Bompiani Italian-language pb [1963] out of print/scarce Ediciones Grijalbo Italian-language hardcover [1971] out of print/scarce | |
 | "Benito Mussolini" biography [1962] by Christopher Hibbert, 2008 Foreword by Tobias Jones St. Martin's Griffin 8½x5½ pb [7/2008] for $26.99 Penguin Books, Ltd. pb [7/75] out of print/used Little, Brown hardcover [1962] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini and Italian Fascism" [1964] by S. William Halperin [1905-79] The author's thesis, presented by way of examination of 27 documents, effectively demonstrates that Italian Fascism was actually 'Mussolinianism', a movement born of one man's craving for power - a movement that died when he died. Van Nostrand/Anvil mass pb [1964] out of print/scarce Van Nostrand/Anvil mass pb [1964] out of print/scarce Van Nostrand/Anvil hardcover [1964] out of print/scarce | |
 | "Mussolini's Early Diplomacy (Princeton Legacy Library Series)" [1970] by Alan Cassels of Canada Author argues that Mussolini's policies in the 1930s, the era of the Rome-Berlin axis, were foreshadowed by those of the 1920s, and traces the stages by which Mussolini took control of Italy's foreign relations Princeton Univ Press 8½x5 pb [3/2015] for $71.93 {sic} Princeton Univ Press hardcover [4/2016] for $179.00 {sic} Princeton Univ Press hardcover [6/70] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini and Fascism: The View From America" [1972] by John P. Diggins Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/72] out of print/used Princeton Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/72] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini: The Tragic Women In His Life" [1972] by {son} Vittorio Mussolini [1916-97], Translated by G. Snell New English Library, Ltd. mass pb [1975] for $0.00 New English Library, Ltd. hardcover [7/73] out of print/used Dial Press 9x6 hardcover [1972] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini: An Intimate Biography" [1974] by His Widow Rachele Mussolini, As Told To Albert Zarca, Translated by Christine Hauch Pocket mass pb [5/77] out of print/used Wm. Morrow & Co. 8x5¾ hardcover [1974] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini e Gli Uomini Nel Suo Tempo (Mussolini and The Men In His Time)" [1977] by {son} Vittorio Mussolini [1916-97] Ciaropico Editore Italian-language pb [1977] import scarce | |
 | "Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development" [1982] by Alexander J. De Grand Univ Nebraska Press 8½x5½ 3rd edition pb [5/2000] for $18.43 Univ Nebraska Press 8½x5½ 3rd edition pb [5/2000] out of print/used Univ Nebraska Press 2nd edition pb [6/89] out of print/used Univ Nebraska Press 8½x5¾ 2nd edition hardcover [11/82] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini and Italian Fascism (Pathfinder History Series)" [1998] by Hamish MacDonald 64-page Trans-Atlantic Publns 11x8½ pb [11/98] for $28.50 | |
 | "Muss.: Il Grande Imbecille" [1999] by Curzio Malaparte 135-page Italian language Luni Editrice 2nd edition 9¼x7 pb [1999] out of print/scarce | |
 | "Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945" [2001] by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
'innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship . . . shows that Mussolini presented fascism as a movement that would allow economic development without harm to social boundaries and national traditions' Kindle Edition from Univ California Press [2001 edition] for $28.88 {sic} Univ California Press 8¾x6 pb [3/2004] for $30.40 Univ California Press 9x6 hardcover [2001] for $51.36 | |
 | "Appointment With Il Duce" novel [2001] by Hozy Rossi The life of Beppe Arpino from boyhood thru many adventures to happiness married to the woman that he loves and in a successful career as a dentist in Naples; his dying mentor extracts a promise to get the fascist government to take on the mentor's eccentric fitness plan, and so Beppo sets out for Rome . . . Welcome Rain Publrs 8x5½ pb [1/2003] for $10.29 Welcome Rain Publrs 8½x6 hardcover [7/2001] for $9.95 | |
 | "Mussolini" biography [2002] by R.J.B. Bosworth
Bloomsbury Academic 8¼x5½ pb [3/2011] for $24.95 Bloomsbury USA 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2002] for $44.00 | |
 | "Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought" [2004] by A. James Gregor Kindle Edition from Princeton Univ Press [1/2009] for $24.49 {sic} Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $38.95 Princeton Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [12/2004] out of print/used | |
 | "Empire On The Adriatic: Mussolini's Conquest of Yugoslavia, 1941-1943" [2005] by H. James Burgwyn Enigma Books 9x6 pb [7/2005] out of print/used Enigma Books 9x6½ hardcover [7/2005] out of print/used | |
 | "The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and The Fortunes of Italy" [2005] by Sergio Luzzatto, Translated by Frederika Randall Kindle Edition from Metropolitan Books/Macmillan [10/2014] for $7.99 Picador 8x5 pb [5/2006] out of print/used Metropolitan Books 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/2005] for $11.05 | |
 | "Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922-1940" [2007] by John Gooch Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [12/2007] out of print/used Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [12/2007] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini and The Rise of Fascism" [2008] by Donald Sassoon Kindle Edition from HarperPress [9/2012] for $6.99 HarperCollins UK 8x5½ hardcover [1/2008] out of print/used | |
 | "Mussolini and Italian Fascism (Seminar Studies Series)" [2008] by Giuseppe Finaldi of Australia Examines the legacy that the experience of fascism left behind in Italy and in Europe Kindle Edition from Routledge [1/2014] for $22.59 Routledge mass pb [1/2014] for $101.99 {sic} Routledge 9¼x6½ pb [7/2008] for $38.50 Routledge 9½x6¾ hardcover [2/2016] for $181.54 | |
 | "The Woman Who Shot Mussolini" [2010] by Frances Stonor Saunders Violet Gibson [1876-1956] from Ireland shot at Mussolini in April 1926, from arm's distance during a walking parade; the first shot grazed Il Duce's nose, then the gun jammed; Violet was declared insane and spent the rest of her life in British asylums. Kindle Edition from Metropolitan/Macmillan [3/2011] for $7.99 Picador 8½x5½ pb [3/2011] for $2.75 {sic} Metropolitan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2010] for $4.44 {sic} | |
 | "Il Duce and His Women: Mussolini's Rise To Power" [2011] by Roberto Olla, Translated by Stephen Parkin Kindle Edition from Alma Books [11/2011] for $12.82 {sic} Alma Books 7x5¼ pb [5/2013] for $9.71 Alma Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2011] for $6.89 | |
 | "Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire, 1940-1943" [2012] by H. James Burgwyn Enigma Books 9x6 pb [7/2012] out of print/used | |
 | "Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy" [2012] by Christopher Duggan Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [6/2013] for $20.10 {sic} Vintage 7¾x5 pb [6/2013] for $14.38 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2013] for $17.92 Bodley Head 9½x6½ hardcover [2012] for $64.12 | |
 | "The Cult of The Duce: Mussolini, and The Italians" [2013] by Stephen Gundle, Christopher Duggan & Giuliana Pieri Kindle Edition from Manchester Univ Press [11/2015] for $26.48 {sic} Manchester Univ Press 9x6 pb [2/2015] for $27.87 Manchester Univ Press 9x6½ hardcover [6/2013] for $54.93 | |
 | "History In An Hour: Mussolini" for Kindle [2014] by Rupert Colley
90-page Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [4/2014] for $1.99 author's official website | |
 | "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and The Rise of Fascism In Europe" [2014] by David I. Kertzer won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2015 Kindle Edition from Random House [1/2014] for $13.99 Random House Trade 9¼x6 pb [1/2015] for $16.40 Random House Book Club 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [1/2014] for $11.57 | |
 | "Tutti Gli Uomini di Mussolini: I Gerarchi alla Corte del Duce (All The Men of Mussolini: The Leaders At The Duce's Court)" [2015] by Roberto Festorazzi
Cairo Publng Italian-language 8¼x5¾ pb [2015] for $46.11 | |
 | "Mussolini, Der Erste Faschist: Eine Biographie" [2016] by Hans Woller German-language C.H. Beck 9x5¾ hardcover [3/2016] for $29.44 | |
 | "Benito Mussolini: A Life From Beginning To End" biography [2017] from Hourly History 50-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [6/2017] for $2.99 48-page self-publd 9x6 pb [6/2017] for $12.99 | |
 | "M. Il Figlio del Secolo (Il Romanzo di Mussolini)" Italian edition [2018]
by Antonio Scurati 2019 winner of the prestigious Premio Strega literary award Volume 1: Kindle Edition from Bompiani [9/2018] for $17.99 Volume 1: Bompiani 9x6 pb [10/2018] for $40.20 "M. L'Uomo della Provvidenza (Il Romanzo di Mussolini), Volume 2" Italian edition [2020] Volume 2: Kindle Edition from Bompiani [9/2020] for $16.99 Volume 2: Bompiani pb [9/2020] for $38.61 | |
 | "M: L'Ascension de Mussolini" French Edition [2020] Translated by Nathalie Bauer
Volume 1: Kindle Edition from Les Arθnes [8/2020] for $20.99 Volume 1: Les Arθnes 8½x6 pb [8/2020] for $39.95 "M: L'Homme de La Providence, Volume 2" French Edition [2021] Volume 2: Kindle Edition from Les Arθnes [8/2021] for $20.99 Volume 2: Les Arθnes 8¼x6 pb [8/2021] for $42.59 | |
 | "The Truth About Mussolini and Fascism" [2020] by Martin Goldberg author presents a deeply-researched and compelling narrative about the specifics of Mussolinis campaign for peace, the work of Fascism to support organized labor, and a remarkable commitment from the Duce to eradicate slavery in Africa Kindle Edition from indep [10/2020] for $7.99 indep 9x6 pb [10/2020] for $12.99 |
"Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (Princeton Legacy Library, 1248)
Part of: Princeton Legacy Library (49 books) | by John Patrick Diggins | Mar 8, 2015
http://www.amazon.com/Mussolini-Fascism-America-Princeton-Library/dp/0691644977/
"Italian Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship (Princeton Legacy Library, 671) by A. James Gregor | Apr 19, 2016
http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Fascism-Developmental-Dictatorship-Princeton/dp/0691643709/
 | "M: Son of The Century - A Novel" [2021] by Antonio Scurati, Translated by Anne Milano Appel massive international bestseller; a masterful saga that tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder; steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, the book explores the seductive power of nationalism and idolatry, revealing how authoritarianism took hold and a nation was bent to the will of one ruthless strongman; 4/2022 review in Washington Post noted that 'Only the Duce himself, socialist deputy Gaicomo Matteotti, and ultra-nationalist blowhard Gabriele D'Annunzio come across as 3-dimensional characters'. Kindle Edition from Harper [4/2022] for $14.99 4th Estate/William Collins 9¼x6 pb [2021] for $35.73 Harper 9x6 hardcover [4/2022] for $29.49 |
"Rethinking the History of Italian Fascism (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) by Giulia Albanese | Mar 10, 2022
http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-History-Italian-Routledge-European/dp/0367553112/
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