The fall of Mussolini : Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War / Philip Morgan.

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Philip, 1948-

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Format/Description:

Book
ix, 263 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Italy -- History -- 1922-1945.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1943-1947.
Fascism -- Italy -- History.
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy.

Contents:

Introduction : remembering the Second World War in Italy
The first fall of Mussolini, July 1943
Facist Italy at war, 1940-1943 : propaganda and reality
Fascist Italy at war, 1940-1943 : collapse of the home front
The forty five days, July to September 1943
The Armistice, September 1943
The invasion and occupation of Italy, and the Kingdom of the South, 1943-1945
The other two Italies, and their three wars, 1943-1945
Continuing the wars and the second fall of Mussolini, April 1945
Conclusion : Italy's war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-252) and index.

ISBN:

019280247X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780192802477

OCLC:

77486009

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