So I was rather excited to be asked to review the new Sky Atlantic TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century. The series ...

Another historical fiction recommendation is the new book from the Nobel literature prize-winning South Korean author Han ...

How a groundbreaking Mussolini drama examines the birth of fascism - IN FOCUS: Next month an epic eight-part biopic of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini airs on Sky. Craig McLean visits the set in ...

Noting that too often scholars have looked at the foreign policy and military institutions of Mussolini's Italy as essentially separate ... and thus they have to be studied in tandem. A very good book ...

Bracingly unconventional Sky drama charts the fascist leader’s rise from obscurity to power in just three years ...

I put on 20 kilograms [45 lbs], and I cut my hair; I learned Mussolini’s dialect from a dialect coach, which helped me a lot to get in character. Then I studied: I read Antonio Scurati’s book ...

A time always comes when a lost populace turns to simple ideas, to the cunning brutality of strongmen…” So begins our unreliable narrator, Benito Mussolini, in Joe Wright’s fantastically theatrical ...

See why Benito Mussolini was considered a pioneer among 20th century dictators. From undermining judges to indoctrinating children, he forged key tactics for seizing power. He also created fascism ...