| - Book Title: Mussolini , Study of a Demagogue
- Author: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick
- ISBN: mw00126591
- Publisher: Odhams
- Year Published: 1964
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- Description: Odhams 1964: first edition: black and white cloth with brown leather spine: gilt lettering to spine: 669 pages with brown speckled edging: black and white photographic illustration. Synopsis: A comprehensive, detailed and analytical biography of Mussolini, published as a companion volume to is Alan Bullock's biography of Hitler. The author, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick became head of the Chancellery at the Embassy in Rome in 1930 , transferring to Berlin by the autumn of 1933. In 1939 he was head of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, and later on became Controller of the European Services of the BBC,where part of his brief was to follow developments in Italy,and report on the Salo republic. His contacts with , and knowledge of , Mussolini during his career, form the basis of this substantial work. Contents: Important personalities and institutions. Introduction. Book 1: The Early Years, 1883 -- 1922. Childhood, 1883 -- 1901. The vagabond, 1901 -- 1912. The editor, 1912 -- 1917. The party leader, 1917 -- 1922. The parliamentarian, 1921 -- 1922. The March on Rome in 1922. Book 2: The Years of Power, 1922 -- 1940. The Duce. . The Prime Minister 1922 -- 1924. The murder of Matteotti, 1924. The Dictator , 1925 -- 1929. The Conciliation , 1929. The Halcyon years 1925 -- 1935. The Abyssinian war of 1935 to 1936. The Spanish War and German entanglement, 1936 to 1937. Prelude to war, 1939. The bitterness of neutrality, 1939 -- 1940 Book 3 War and Defeat, 1940 -- 1945. War, 1940. The thorny path, 1941. Defeat, 1942 -- 1943. The palace revolution, 1943. Imprisonment and rescue, 1943. Vengeance, 1943 -- 1944 The Salo Republic, 1944 -- 1945. The end, 1945. bibliography. Index Condition ex library book with stickers, and remnants to end pages and dating page: gilt stamped numeral to spine: contents very clean: overall very clean and good
- Condition: Collectable- Good
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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