Italy's War at Home: The Fronte Interno, 1940-1945

Brings the story of World War II in Italy and among Italians to an English-speaking audience and adds to our understanding of the collapse and ruin of dictatorships

Italy’s World War II experience might be described as a blunder, a mistake, or a tragedy. Since 1922, Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime had been constructing a paper tiger—lots of bluster but not much to back it up. A dictatorship, sometimes based on coercion and sometimes on enticement, could never be sure of popular support. Wh...