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Historical person
1883–1945
Benito Mussolini was the founder of Italian Fascism and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his fall in 1943. His regime suppressed opposition, pursued imperial expansion, allied with Nazi Germany, and brought Italy into the Second World War with catastrophic consequences.
Benito Mussolini also held the offices or ranks of Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy, First marshal of the empire, minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy, and foreign minister. Benito Mussolini belonged to the Romeo Santos and operated within Italian Social Republic; Kingdom of Italy. Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio and died in Giulino.
David Boyle’s Munich 1938 examines Mussolini as the dictator who inserted himself into the Sudeten crisis and helped stage the final conference that dismembered Czechoslovakia. Wilbur Smith’s Cry Wolf and Christopher Nicole’s The Sword and the Scalpel move back to Mussolini’s assault on Ethiopia, showing fictional characters caught in a war driven by Fascist expansion and overwhelming Italian military power. The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia treats the same campaign directly, including the use of chemical weapons, the weakness of League sanctions and the creation of Italian East Africa. James Holland’s Sicily ’43 shows the other end of Mussolini’s rule: Allied invasion, Italian military collapse and the political crisis that removed him from power. Together the books move from imperial ambition and diplomatic theatre to the failure of the regime he created.
Series
The Jack Tanner series follows a sergeant in the fictional King’s Own Yorkshire Rangers through the British Army’s changing fortunes between 1940 and 1943. The Odin Mission begins during the retreat from Norway, Darkest Hour moves through the fall of France and Dunkirk, and Blood of Honour places…
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The Breaking Point series follows RAF fighter pilot Johnnie Shaux and mathematician-turned-military analyst Eleanor Rand, later Eleanor Shaux, through the successive years of the Second World War. Johnnie experiences the conflict from cockpits, airfields and operational units, while Eleanor works in headquarters where intelligence, logistics and strategy determine…
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Originally published under the Alan Savage name, the Sword Series links members of the Brand and Warrey families through the conflicts of the 1930s and the Second World War. Harry Brand begins as a medical orderly in Ethiopia, and later volumes follow the fall of Singapore and Burma,…
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Roads to War follows soldier of fortune Cal Jardine through the crises that lead Europe towards the Second World War. His missions take him from Nazi Germany and threatened Abyssinia to the Spanish Civil War and the struggle over Czechoslovakia. Each novel places Jardine among volunteers, agents and…
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Standalone books
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
