Table of Contents

Introduction
Italy at the Paris Peace Conference
Mussolini in Power
Italian Revisionism
The Grandi Era
1933: Annus Diabolicus
Mussolini's Danubian Strategy
Italy's Imperialist Adventure
The Italian Empire: A Hollow Triumph
The Dictators Converge
Consolidation of the Axis
War
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Details Italian diplomacy in the interim period between the two world wars.

About the Author

H. JAMES BURGWYN is Professor of History at West Chester University. During a two-year leave of absence 1977-1979, he served as an Assistant Director at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He is the author of Il Revisionismo Fascista and The Legend of the Mutilated Victory: Italy, the Great War, and the Paris Peace Conference (Greenwood, 1993) and has contributed articles in numerous journals both in America and Italy.

Reviews

?[T]his new work by H.J. Burgwyn is very welcome.?-Journal of Modern Italian Studies

?Burgwyn's clearly written survey steers a compromise course amid conflicting recent interpretations of Mussolini's foriegn policy.... This book's straightforward prose and chronological arrangement will appeal to students.?-Choice

"ÝT¨his new work by H.J. Burgwyn is very welcome."-Journal of Modern Italian Studies

"[T]his new work by H.J. Burgwyn is very welcome."-Journal of Modern Italian Studies

"Burgwyn's clearly written survey steers a compromise course amid conflicting recent interpretations of Mussolini's foriegn policy.... This book's straightforward prose and chronological arrangement will appeal to students."-Choice