About the Author

Richard Bosworth is one of the world's leading writers on Fascist Italy whose life of Mussolini is the definitive account in English. He is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.

Reviews

With this insightful, comprehensive study, Bosworth secures his place as one of the two leading historians in the English-speaking world . . . of twentieth-century Italy. ("Publishers Weekly", starred and boxed review)

A powerful work of scholarship, beautifully written, which should be read by anyone interested in twentieth-century Europe. ("The Economist")

Shrewd, lucid, exhaustively documented and totally unsentimental. (David Schoenbaum, "The New York Times")