Buy this book on-line OLLA, ROBERTO - Translated by Stephen Parkin : IL DUCE AND HIS WOMEN - MUSSOLINI'S RISE TO POWER.UK.RICHMOND,SURREY.ALMA BOOKS LTD.,2011. ISBN 9781846881350.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject's monochrome portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gilt lettering to same and spine/backstrip, white lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A tiny snick/closed tear (no loss) to foot of spine/backstrip of both dw/dj and book's board.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,though there is some top corner tiny accidental creasing to a small block of pages - despite this,it still appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - excepting front,lower corner minisculely bumped with merest hint of a dent,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to both front board and spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-486pp [paginated] includes an introduction,17 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w auto+ biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp122/23 and pp388/89 respectively,appendices(2),notes and references and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and title separator page.
Out of the ruins and savagery of WW2,the figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the twentieth century.After his ignominous end in Piazzale Loreto,most have tried to erase the memory and the actions of the once powerful dictator, while others have made an attempt to reassess his life and works,despite the indelible legacy of death,violence and destruction he left behind.
But who was the real Benito Mussolini? Now that over sixty years of scholarship and an abundance of first-hand documents by his closest relations and his many lovers are available to the researcher,the elusive,contradictory and often misunderstood traits of his character are beginning to take shape into a more meaningful and better defined portrait of the man,the politician and the leader.
'Il Duce and His Women' charts the main events in Mussolini's private and public life,from his humble beginnings in Romagna as the son of a blacksmith to his years as the director of a leading Socialist newspaper and his irresistible rise to power,with a particular focus on his renowned appetite for women,and the lesser -known influence they had on his decision-making.The result is a riveting account that will shock and haunt the readers for a long time.
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