TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foot,John
TI  - Blood and power: the rise and fall of Italian fascism 
SN  - 1408897946
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Mussolini, Benito,
KW  - Fascism
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 1914-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-405) and index; Preamble: a family story -- Prologue -- 1911 -- 1914 -- 1915-18 -- 1919 -- A second red year: 1920 -- Black years: 1920-21 -- 1921 -- Year Zero: 1922 -- The march on Rome: October-November 1922 -- 1923 -- 1924 -- Trying to kill Mussolini: 1925-26 -- Regime: 1926-27 -- 1928 -- 1929 -- The 1930s -- 1933 -- 1934 -- War on Italy's Jews: 1938 -- Fatal alliance and the Pact of Steel -- Total war -- 1943 -- Forty five days -- 8 September 1943 -- Italy's Holocaust: deportation and slaughter, 1943-45 -- Liberation: 1944 -- Mussolini between life and death: a story in fragments -- Post-fascist Italy: ghosts and memories -- Epilogue
N2  - "In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland; one that promised to build a 'New Roman Empire', and make Italy a great power again. Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives and truncheons, the proponents of fascism embraced a climate of violence and rampant masculinity. Led by Mussolini, they would systematically destroy the organizations of the left, murdering and torturing anyone who got in their way. In Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Using the accounts of real people - fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders - he tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day"--Publisher's description
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