Fascist Italy

The experience of Fascism in Italy was a sorrowful national trauma mixed with episodes of comic opera. This excellent book is an overall history of Fascist Italy. Mussolini's personal influence in shaping Fascism is balanced with a discussion of the historical forces that fostered totalitarianism. The ultimate goal of Fascist Italy's foreign policy--world power and overseas empire--is related to the creation of a new order in morals and politics at home.