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

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 ...

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 ...

“We had to show all the violence in fascism – but also Mussolini’s great power of seduction on people,” says Antonio Scurati, from whose bestselling, fact-based 2018 book the series is ...

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

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

A new mini-series on Benito Mussolini now out in Italy is already attracting controversy after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she won't be making time to watch it.

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 ...

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