Kertzer’s book, “The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe,” has been dubbed “a sophisticated blockbuster” by historian Joseph Ellis. Even before its ...

The Third Reich’s attack, mounted without consulting its Italian ally, had other reverberations as well. Chief among them was Mussolini’s decision to conduct a "parallel war" based on his own tactical ...

In this new look at the relationship between Mussolini and Hitler, Goeschel (University of Manchester) delves deeply into the ups and downs of the personal interaction between the two, in what F. W.

Spanish historian Gonzalez Lopez, who has written extensively in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, gives us a very well illustrated, quite detailed account of the liberation of Mussolini ...

In the opening moments of Sky’s new, eight-part biopic Mussolini: Son of the Century, we hear the man himself speak. “For 20 years you adored me and feared me, as a god. Then you madly hated ...

Dr Christian Goeschel, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, was invited to discuss his book Mussolini and Hitler in a ...