IL DUCE (367 pp.)Christopher HibbertLittle Brown ($6).
"I who was born a revolutionary tell you that you cannot permanently sacrifice the principles of YOUR revolution." So wrote Benito Mussolini to his brother rebel Adolf Hitler in a letter dated Jan. 3, 1940, reproaching Hitler for his cordial relations with yet another revolutionaryStalin. But Mussolini, the founder of Fascism, proved in his own life the spiritual twinship of Fascism and Stalin's Bolshevism. He had marched under both banners without changing step.
To the present generation, Mussolini seems a semicomic ogre remembered most for his operatic...
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