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Mussolini
Door R. J. B. Bosworth
Categorie | Geschiedenis Europa |
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Boeknummer | #404785-ZC36 |
Titel | Mussolini |
Auteur | Bosworth, R. J. B. |
Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
Uitgeverij | New York : Bloomsbury USA |
Jaar van uitgave | 2002 |
ISBN10 | 0340731443 |
ISBN13 | 9780340731444 |
Taal | Engels |
Beschrijving | Original black half cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo. |
Samenvatting | "He was one of the tyrant-killers who so scarred interwar Europe, but neither he nor his regime can be properly understood by any simple equation with Hitler or Stalin. Like Hitler and Stalin, his life began, modestly, in the provinces; unlike them, he maintained a traditional male family life, including both wife and mistresses, and sought in his way to be an intellectual. He was cruel (but not the cruellest); his racism existed, but never with the consistency and vigour that would have made him a good recruit for the SS. He sought an empire; but, in the most part, his was of the old-fashioned, costly, nineteenth-century variety, not a racial or ideological imperium. And self-evidently Italian society was not German or Russian: the particular patterns of that society shaped his dicta... (Lees verder)torship.". |
Pagina's | 608 |
Conditie | Goed |
Prijs | € 15,00 |
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