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The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime.Looking beyond Mussolini's initial fall from
power, Morgan examines how the Italian people responded to the invasion, occupation, and division of their country by Nazi German and Anglo-American forces - and how crucial the experience of this period
was in shaping Italy's post-war sense of nationhood and transition to democracy.
The dramatic story of Mussolini's fall from power in July 1943, illuminating both the causes and the consequences of this momentous event. Morgan shows how Italians of all classes coped with the extraordinary pressures of wartime living, both on the military and home fronts, and how their experience of the country at war eventually distanced them from the dictator and his fascist regime.Looking beyond Mussolini's initial fall from
power, Morgan examines how the Italian people responded to the invasion, occupation, and division of their country by Nazi German and Anglo-American forces - and how crucial the experience of this period
was in shaping Italy's post-war sense of nationhood and transition to democracy.
Introduction: Remembering the Second World War in Italy
1: The First Fall of Mussolini, July 1943
2: Fascist Italy at War, 1940-1943: Propaganda and Reality
3: Fascist Italy at War, 1940-43: Collapse of the Home Front
4: The Forty-Five Days, July to September 1943
5: The Armistice, September 1943
6: The Invasion and Occupation of Italy, and the Kingdom of the
South, 1943-1945
7: The Other Two Italies, and their Three Wars, 1943-1945
Conclusion: Italy's War
Philip Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History at the University of Hull. His previous publications include Italian Fascism, 1919-1945 and Fascism in Europe, 1919-1945.
A richly informed work.
`Review from previous edition An absorbing account of how ordinary
Italians coped under the regime of a man who was both hated and
revered...It is a book which will be welcomed by students of the
era.'
Vincent Moss, Tribune Books (Review)
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