Monday marked 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945. The following day, his body was publicly desecrated in ...

Given the scale of Adolf Hitler’s atrocities, our image of fascism today has largely been shaped by Nazism. Yet, Mussolini preceded Hitler. Il Duce, as Mussolini was known, was Hitler’s ...

The will was signed at 4 a.m. on April 29. Then, the man who had once commanded millions went to sleep. That same day, news arrived of Benito Mussolini’s death. Hitler’s wartime ally had been captured ...

Italy’s Benito Mussolini, along with his mistress, was killed by the Italian Resistance on April 28, 1945; on April 30, Adolph Hitler and his new wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves in a Berlin ...

Benito Mussolini wearing military uniform with braid on shoulders, medals and chain with medallion on chest, fur hat. Given the scale of Hitler’s atrocities, our image of fascism today has ...

Mussolini, and Hitler as strategists is a worthy entry. The first part of the book is devoted to describing how their backgrounds and experience of war as young men shaped their strategic views.